Solar power has gained popularity, and for good reason too. This helps the environment, stops the Greenhouse gasses from penetrating the atmosphere, and is a lot cheaper to use. Switching from gas to solar, however, isn’t always easy and affordable.
Nonetheless, some people are trying to save up money in order to invest on solar power. Is it really worth it? Some companies think so and are doing everything to find the many ways to harness the sun’s energy and convert it to something they can benefit from.
What the experts have discovered right now is an innovative sponge that has the ability to absorb water vapor from the air. Once that’s done, it then converts it to pure hydrogen so that they can use the hydrogen fuel cell for vehicles and machines that are available around.
What this sponge does is use electrolysis to take out hydrogen in its purest form. Once that’s done, the extraction can then be powered by solar or wind energy. At the end is a renewable fuel produced from renewable electricity.
At this point, this is the only portable green fuel source available that has the ability to replace diesel or kerosene at a large scale. What makes this even more unique is the fact that pure hydrogen is not readily available in nature. It isn’t an element that’s easily accessible on its own. The success of this entire project will depend on looking for ways to produce it in a sustainable fashion, and when they do that, they will find the very secret to grow and expand it so that many industries and transportation companies will be able to use it.
Vehicles can be equipped with hydrogen fuel cells. These modes of transportation will then combust the pure hydrogen extract with oxygen. This will have the same effect when traditional fossil fuels are combusted. The major difference between the two is that the only emission is makes is hydrogen plus oxygen, which is essentially water.
The sponge is also very much like the silica gel sachets that are placed with the sold goods placed inside a package. An expert team of chemical engineers from Australia have developed a hygroscopic gel. This absorbs moisture found in the air we breathe, and once these are absorbed by the gel, it splits through electrolysis to become hydrogen and oxygen.
Ten square feet of this get can already produce 24 gallons of pure hydrogen on an hourly basis. The scientists behind the study have made calculations and said that 100 square feet of it will be able to replace natural gas for a family home.
“This module can work under a bone-dry environment with a relative humidity of 4%, overcoming water supply issues and producing green hydrogen sustainably with minimal impact to the environment,” the authors have written. “The modules can be easily scaled to provide hydrogen to remote, (semi-) arid, and scattered areas.”
Right now, Germany has made changes to many of their diesel locomotives that they have utilized for their regional and freight trains. They changed these for ones powered by hydrogen. New Zealand, on the other hand, is currently trying to hydrogen-ize stretches of its highway system so that it can allow hydrogen-powered 18-wheeler trucks to run on its roads.
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