Researchers Make Hydrogen Storage Breakthrough
New breakthrough may one day make hydrogen fuel cells more viable for transportation
Fuel cells are being researched heavily for use as a method of powering vehicles. Hydrogen is an ideal fuel for transportation because burning it produces no harmful byproducts that are released into the atmosphere.
The big problem with hydrogen is that storing hydrogen-containing fuel materials is difficult to do because hydrogen has very low energy content for its volume compared to traditional vehicle fuels like gasoline. Researchers working together at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Alabama have announced a new breakthrough in the storage of hydrogen. The research teams were working together under the U.S. Department of Energy(DOE) Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence.
