[HN Gopher] Hydrogen paste has a similar range to that of gasoline
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Hydrogen paste has a similar range to that of gasoline
Author : vlindos
Score : 24 points
Date : 2021-02-16 19:34 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| naebother wrote:
| > All drivers need to do to refuel is swap out the old cartridge
| for a new one and fill a tank with water.
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| Interesting. So the paste is being mixed with water to release
| the hydrogen gas? What happens to cartridge after? Do you just
| refill it with more paste? Why can't that be done at POS? Would
| be nice to have a more technical description of how the whole
| process works.
| [deleted]
| mohaine wrote:
| Sounds nice but the title is a bit off from the content. `The
| researchers also pointed out that the range of the paste can be
| compared with gasoline and may even exceed it.`
|
| Being able to be compared to gasoline is quite a bit different
| than being similar to gasoline. I would interpret that to being
| roughly the same order of magnitude, not similar.
|
| Also, the `may even exceed it` makes the entire thing sound
| fishy. It doesn't say `may even exceed it with more development`
| so does this mean they don't even know the current energy
| density?
| yorwba wrote:
| Discussed previously:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26027288
|
| (Also, the submitted link seems to use some kind of URL
| shortener. Don't do that!)
| dang wrote:
| Yikes - link shorteners are banned on HN. URL changed from
| https://trib.al/E5llYxw above. Thanks!
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