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Palladium hydride electrical generation?

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So this is a rather complex question but can't Palladium hydride be used for generating electrical power?

 

Palladium hydride contains hydrogen gas. How much gas is in a 1 pound block though? How much electricity could that generate?

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    It can - you can burn the hydrogen in a fuel cell or a heat engine. There are issues:

    1) Palladium is very expensive, but it can be used to store hydrogen at lowish pressure.

    2) The hydrogen has to come from somewhere, either from electrolysis which requires energy from one of the usual sources (nuke, fossil , solar etc) or chemically from fossil fuel.

     

    The energy density by weight and cost is quite low - which is another way of saying that there are better ways to do the same thing. There is a reason that almost all commercially available electric cars (hybrid or full) use lithium batteries - that reason is that it is currently the most cost effective solution.

     

    You would almost certainly do better to make methanol with the original input energy (and CO2 and water) and then burn that in an internal combustion engine.

     

    Google this stuff - there is lots of information around.

     

    MK

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    It can - you can burn the hydrogen in a fuel cell or a heat engine. There are issues:

    1) Palladium is very expensive, but it can be used to store hydrogen at lowish pressure.

    2) The hydrogen has to come from somewhere, either from electrolysis which requires energy from one of the usual sources (nuke, fossil , solar etc) or chemically from fossil fuel.

     

    The energy density by weight and cost is quite low - which is another way of saying that there are better ways to do the same thing. There is a reason that almost all commercially available electric cars (hybrid or full) use lithium batteries - that reason is that it is currently the most cost effective solution.

     

    You would almost certainly do better to make methanol with the original input energy (and CO2 and water) and then burn that in an internal combustion engine.

     

    Google this stuff - there is lots of information around.

     

    MK

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