Major breakthrough - Danish geeks solve worlds energy problems

[Dirty Dane]

Quite obviously they had to wait for patenting it, and yesterday some danish researchers released their technology which is probably the biggest breakthrough in energy since nuclear power.

Making society independent of fossil fuels - Danish researchers reveal new technology

Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have invented a technology which may be an important step towards the hydrogen economy: a hydrogen tablet that effectively stores hydrogen in an inexpensive and safe material.
With the new hydrogen tablet, it becomes much simpler to use the environmentally-friendly energy of hydrogen. Hydrogen is a non-polluting fuel, but since it is a light gas it occupies too much volume, and it is flammable. Consequently, effective and safe storage of hydrogen has challenged researchers world-wide for almost three decades. At the Technical University of Denmark, DTU, an interdisciplinary team has developed a hydrogen tablet which enables storage and transport of hydrogen in solid form.

?Should you drive a car 600 km using gaseous hydrogen at normal pressure, it would require a fuel tank with a size of nine cars. With our technology, the same amount of hydrogen can be stored in a normal gasoline tank?, says Professor Claus Hviid Christensen, Department of Chemistry at DTU.

The hydrogen tablet is safe and inexpensive. In this respect it is different from most other hydrogen storage technologies. You can literally carry the material in your pocket without any kind of safety precaution. The reason is that the tablet consists solely of ammonia absorbed efficiently in sea-salt. Ammonia is produced by a combination of hydrogen with nitrogen from the surrounding air, and the DTU-tablet therefore contains large amounts of hydrogen. Within the tablet, hydrogen is stored as long as desired, and when hydrogen is needed, ammonia is released through a catalyst that decomposes it back to free hydrogen. When the tablet is empty, you merely give it a ?shot? of ammonia and it is ready for use again.

?The technology is a step towards making the society independent of fossil fuels? says Professor Jens Nørskov, director of the Nanotechnology Center at DTU. He, Claus Hviid Christensen, Tue Johannessen, Ulrich Quaade and Rasmus Zink Sørensen are the five researchers behind the invention. The advantages of using hydrogen are numerous. It is CO2-free, and it can be produced by renewable energy sources, e.g. wind power.

?We have a new solution to one of the major obstacles to the use of hydrogen as a fuel. And we need new energy technologies ? oil and gas will not last, and without energy, there is no modern society?, says Jens Nørskov.

Together with DTU and SeeD Capital Denmark, the researchers have founded the company Amminex A/S, which will focus on the further development and commercialization of the technology.

http://www.dtu.dk/English/About_DTU/...hnolog y.aspx

their homepage:
http://www.amminex.com/index_files/Page344.htm

They got a price for this technology yesterday, and in the interview the researcher said that "it was a surprise that no one thought of this simple solution before".... hehe, the good old story about low budget researchers vs billion dollar companies with clueless employees
They said that it will be possible to integrate this technology fully already in 10 years. How soon depends on the big companies

[Ninja Scripts]

How soon will most likely depend on how fast the car companies and governments decide to make this discovery "disappear".

[Dirty Dane]

Originally Posted by Ninja Scripts

How soon will most likely depend on how fast the car companies and governments decide to make this discovery "disappear".

Yes, unfortunately economy is the obstacle. I imagine it will be a step by step technology ranging 10-30 years. I don't think companies will let such technology die. Sooner or later it will be needed (and required).

[Doctor Dre]

Insane ... too bad we all know it won't get nowhere ... fuel compagnies like their money too much

[kmanrox]

why isnt this on the main page of CNN?

[justsexxx]

Funny thing is. We had some guy who invented this kind of technology as well. When he would release it, he was found dead. He commited suicide....(few years ago) yeah right,,,.,

[sexxxydesign.com]

we need the YUGO HIDROGEN in the streets.. and once they sell enough of them.. a preventive strike just on top of the factory !!!!

[Dirty Dane]

Originally Posted by Doctor Dre

Insane ... too bad we all know it won't get nowhere ... fuel compagnies like their money too much

Yeah lol.. Another similar story within medicine some few years ago too. Some scientists had found a vaccine against carius. I guess the dentists did not like it much, and I havent heard anything after that

[Ninja Scripts]

Originally Posted by justsexxx

Funny thing is. We had some guy who invented this kind of technology as well. When he would release it, he was found dead. He commited suicide....(few years ago) yeah right,,,.,

Myself and a friend found a way to cut electricity bills by a huge margin. We are literally scared to release it.

[bhutocracy]

Originally Posted by Doctor Dre

Insane ... too bad we all know it won't get nowhere ... fuel compagnies like their money too much

I tend to think fossil fuel energy companies will be the best placed to make money on the transition to new energy sources after they've drained every last drop of oil out of the earth. It's not going to be some environmentally conscious solar energy bunch that take over. The current goons will just be peddling clean energy, for one they're already investing, and secondly they've got the trillions to blow any one else out of the water.

[Odin88]

Originally Posted by bhutocracy

I tend to think fossil fuel energy companies will be the best placed to make money on the transition to new energy sources after they've drained every last drop of oil out of the earth. It's not going to be some environmentally conscious solar energy bunch that take over. The current goons will just be peddling clean energy, for one they're already investing, and secondly they've got the trillions to blow any one else out of the water.

It is going beyond oil companies though. If oil prices keep rising it is going to send the world economy into recession. If it where not for china and india we would most likely already be there. Governments are starting to step up to the plate, last I heard the US is spending 20 billion a year on developing alternative energy supplies.

[cambaby]

Gotta love Hydrogen

[Bigfuck]

Combine it with wind power and we have a great solution

[bhutocracy]

Originally Posted by Odin88

It is going beyond oil companies though. If oil prices keep rising it is going to send the world economy into recession. If it where not for china and india we would most likely already be there. Governments are starting to step up to the plate, last I heard the US is spending 20 billion a year on developing alternative energy supplies.

Yeah most likely 20 billion in subsidies to private enterprise.

[Jarmusch]

This technology will own the major oil producing countries. Don't be surprised if these scientists get accidentaly run over when crossing the street tomorrow.

[Iron Mike]

I would ride a hydrogen driven Maserati for sure.

[Massivecock]

Brilliant!

[Dirty Dane]

Originally Posted by Jarmusch

This technology will own the major oil producing countries. Don't be surprised if these scientists get accidentaly run over when crossing the street tomorrow.

5 killed scientists would look suspicious