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alloy2
The role of palladium in a hydrogen economy - ScienceDirect
Palladium is a unique material with a strong affinity to
hydrogen owing to both its catalytic and
hydrogen absorbing properties. Palladium has the potential to play a major role in virtually every aspect of the envisioned
hydrogen economy, including
hydrogen purification, storage, detection, and fuel cells.
Given our particular situation here in Maine .... hydrogen fueled ICE vehicles would make sense. Our electrical grid is near capacity and they are adding heat pumps like crazy. Deployment of EV's is only a fraction of what our state government is mandating. Most of are just working folks that don't make a lot. The EV's are out of our price range. The summer people from neighboring states here in NewEngland are driving them though. A few years ago ... EV's were an oddity. I see them every day now.
Drifting all over the place on this response, but they've already deployed hydrogen powered vehicles in California. That technology is already worked out for everyday use. I had quite a few years in the retail sales of gasoline & diesel industry. One thing that really stood out for me was the amount of global transportation going on just to get that gallon of gas to your local gas station.
It would be a miracle of science if you could produce hydrogen fuel at your corner gas station using electricity from the grid -or- from an attached solar or wind farm. You might even be able to make your own hydrogen fuel in the back yard with a small package plant that would fit in the back of your pickup truck. Way more efficient than the oil industry.
Anyhow ... yeah ... weird sounding futuristic stuff that's already here and on the road. Hard to believe. I wouldn't ... but i'm seeing it everyday now. Hydrogen seems entirely possible.
Instead of gas and diesel vehicles ... it might be electric and hydrogen powered vehicles in the near future.
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