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- From: mikeb@nowaksg.chem.nd.edu (Michael George Buening)
- Subject: Re: Hydrides
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.154902.23035@news.nd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Notre Dame
- References: <1992Sep9.082509.4474@bb1t.monsanto.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:49:02 GMT
- Lines: 61
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- In article <1992Sep9.082509.4474@bb1t.monsanto.com> bjgaed@bb1t.monsanto.com writes:
- >hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- >
- >>>In article <1992Sep7.173612.27505@news.nd.edu> mikeb@nowaksg.chem.nd.edu (Michael George Buening) writes:
- >>>>In article <1992Sep4.181003.19528@ttinews.tti.com> kevin@drogges.tti.com (Kevin Carothers) writes:
- >>>>>In article <2AA544AE.27353@ics.uci.edu> craigm@ics.uci.edu (Craig MacFarlane)
- >writes:
- >
- > ......................
- >
- [Whole bunch of stuff deleted for space]
-
- >The "hydrides" you are speaking of are *transition metal*
- >hydrides. These have the happy property of binding hydrogen
- >very weakly as hydride.
-
- Call me sensitive but as a chemists I feel compelled to educate.
- Sodium and lithum **are not** transition metals. They are alkalai
- metals and have vastly different properties than the transition metals
- in many instances.
-
- [more stuff deleted]
-
- >We could
- >go into a long debate on whether the hydrogen really
- >undergoes reduction to hydride, or whether molecular
- >hydrogen is really adsorbed on the surface of the metal
- >sponge, but I don't think you folks would be all that
- >interested. Suffice it to say that the hydrogen is bound in
- >a form that will not undergo catastrophic release if the
- >tank breaks or is shot at by terrorists or myopic deer
- >hunters.
- >
- I think that debates such as these are of utmost importance to
- the feasibility of using H as fuel but I agree that they probably
- don't belong in this group.
-
- >In the long run, however, it is the "other" energy sources
- >that show the most promise. If we can generate hydrogen
- >from sunlight and water at any sort of efficiency at all, we
- >will have a good shot at achieving a truly non-polluting,
- >very long-term (almost inexhaustible) energy source for
- >vehicular transportation. Wind power, tidal power, etc.,
- >also are possibilities.
- >
- >--
- >--Electric Monk (Bruce Gaede);
- > e-mail: bjgaed@ccmail.monsanto.com
- >
- >"...and then time started seriously to pass."
- >--Douglas Adams, _Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency_
-
- When you figure out how to effeciently store and then use this type
- of energy let me know and I will invest my life savings in the system.
- (Not a flame but a real offer; just my $0.02 worth, literally:-))
-
- --Mike
- internet:mikeb@nowaksg.chem.nd.edu
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