evil_lurker - 7-9-2009 at 06:35
Holy crap. Was watching PBS on the boob tube the other day and seen a thing on alternative power for vehicles. There was this company on there called
ovonics that manufactures soide state hydrogen storage using some proprietary alloy.
So I decided to look them up and damn if they are not selling cylinders. These things are flat out amazing including their extremely high price tag...
the model above is only $800
http://www.fuelcellstore.com/en/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=10...
[Edited on 7-9-2009 by evil_lurker]
[Edited on 7-9-2009 by evil_lurker]
bquirky - 7-9-2009 at 07:44
ive allways day dreamed about making some attempt to syntheszing some of this kind of metal hydride type alloy powder but the more closly i looked at
it the harder it seemed 
12AX7 - 7-9-2009 at 09:30
I'm willing to bet there's a lot of palladium or platinum in there. I suppose it can't really be too much, an ounce would cover the price tag quite
easily.
Tim
entropy51 - 7-9-2009 at 13:07
Good guess, Tim, but their patents cover other materials such as LaNi and TiNi. Here's one of them:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=8IQWAAAAEBAJ&dq=5...