Hydrogen paste, a more practical and less dangerous solution to store this fuel

Today's innovation should allow more vehicles to run on hydrogen.

We have found a new way to store it, both more practical and less dangerous.

Everyone knows that hydrogen is a formidable energy.

The government launched a seven billion euro plan a few months ago to develop it.

But it also has quite a few drawbacks.

It is flammable, it can explode.

We must store it in pressure tanks, it takes up space.

And you need special pumps to distribute it.

This is why this energy is used, above all, in industry. 

Engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have just found a way to store hydrogen in a kind of paste.

Suddenly, there is no need for high pressure, no more risk of explosion.

The dough will remain perfectly inert at room temperature.

Which is much less dangerous.

Are we losing energy efficiency or density?

No, that's the good news.

According to their studies, a can of paste would even have an energy density greater than that of a pressurized canister, and ten times that of a battery of equivalent size. 

The assembly being more compact, this makes it possible to install fuel cells on small vehicles such as motorcycles, scooters or drones.

And on cars, it could easily replace gasoline-powered range extenders.

With an advantage: it will be enough to buy a can of dough anywhere to refuel.

Which facilitates distribution. 

Would it still be ideal to have terminals at gas stations?

It is the objective.

Especially since it would only cost between 20 and 30,000 € at the station, instead of a million for a pressurized hydrogen pump.

This is one of the first effects of the German hydrogen plan (plan at 9 billion euros).

We could also see others in France.

Because we have a lot of nuggets in the area.