If you have been watching me for a while, you would know that im on the Hydrogen band wagon. I really love the internal combustion engine, and the technology can keep the internal combustion engine alive. But unfortunately there are some draw backs with this tech. Well at least there where thanks to a huge breakthrough researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW) and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) made. Now before I go into the great work these guys have done, lets talk about the problems with Hydrogen as a green energy source and then I will explain how there breakthrough makes the technology more viable.
So Hydrogen doesn’t exist on earth in it’s pure form, so we need to produce it, how do we do that? You need to separate the molecules of water, The process of electrolysis is expensive and inefficient, and the process uses a lot of energy, which makes hydrogen an expensive energy source, another huge problem is the fact that the process of separating the molecules are super inefficient. The process of electrolysis is only 75 percent efficient which means there is a loss of 25%. So it costs a lot and you waist 25% of the energy. Not great for me and my dreams of Hydrogen powered ice cars.
Well that’s exactly where this breakthrough comes in. UOW and ACES have developed new electrolyser technology that brings cost-competitive renewable, or green, hydrogen closer to reality. Now there technology is much better than any other existing electrolysers on our planet and is well above the International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) 2050 target. Now like I said previously the process of Electrolysis was only around 75% efficient so we lost a lot of potential energy. So if this new electrolyser is so great how efficient do you think it is at splitting the molecules with out wasting anything? 80% maybe 85%? Well no “Hysata” which is the spin out company that was formed last year to commercialise the breakthrough hydrogen electrolyser technology, has made an electrolyser that is 95% efficient.
Now what does this mean?
Well lets find out.
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2 окт 2024