COPPER AS A FUEL ?Copper Majors should rethink their strategy.
Give Nickel, Lithium, Cobalt a run for their money.
Wink.
Toyota, Hyundai, Honda, BMW
continue to invest heavily into the technology.Feb 10, 2023 CURRENT HYDROGEN ROAD MAP Hydrogen Production Plant Very costly few exist
Gaseous hydrogen is liquefied by cooling it to below −253°C (−423°F).
Once hydrogen is liquefied it can be stored at the liquefaction plant in large insulated tanks.
Transportation Costly to transport - few production plants mean longer distances.
Same expensive " cyro cold tech " is required on, transport.
Cold Hydrogen Fuel Stations Few offer hydrogen due to the costs to produce and transport.
Insulated cold storage tanks are needed.
Energy costs to keep hydrogen liquified - -253 degrees.
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ON DEMAND HYDROGEN Existing fuel station adoption
Same pump style
No new infastructure
Consumer friendly - unlike ev charge stations.
Facilitates mass hydrogen fuel rollout.
Copper Hydroxide ( salts ) aqueous.
Copper salts are not readily avail to consumer
Keeps fuel tech in, refiners control
Same style of petro fuel chain distribution
Easy fuel station adoption
Simple
copper hydroxide fuel solution ( aqueous CuCl, CuS )
pumped up from storage tank below grade.
Electrolyzer converts solution to hydrogen
No nozzel freezing to vehicle gas neck.
Nozzel, specifically keyed to only accept hydrogen from
fuel fuel stations. Deters, wrong mixtures entering vehicle.
No nozzel freeze. Wink. Way better set up.
Electrolyzers, once copper oxides accumilate in chamber
Swap out for replacement Electrolyzer.
Residue copper oxides are recaptured reprocessed
into new - copper salt fuels.
Electrolyzer cleaned.
Ready for next swap out.
As one can see, the advantages are enormous.
Would accommodate a far quicker green energy
rollout than, billion dollar battery plants, which appear
are having a 3 metal sourcing problem.
lithium, cobalt, nickel.
3 headaches.
Versus, simple copper salt fuel.
My guess is,
if an on demand hydrogen copper fuel was rolled out,
the car manufacturers who were onboard, would
LEAD the PACT.
First movers, win.
Copper Tech -
Currently, hydrogen fuel is produced either by extraction from fossil fuels, which is known as “gray hydrogen,” as it still releases carbon into the environment, or by splitting water via electrolysis, which is called “green hydrogen,” as the process is carbon-free. The researchers proved that copper oxide can be utilized as a cheap and effective alternative to current catalysts by injecting hydrogen atoms into a copper oxide catalyst, it said.
The cuprous oxide catalyst enables continuous water splitting for more than 100 hours using low-voltage electricity, which significantly reduces energy consumption, the center said.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/02/22/2003794834
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MORE PROOF https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652620338786 MANUFACTURER who makes
hydrogen electrolizers that function on,
alkaline salts. copper chloride = alkaline.
https://stargatehydrogen.com/gen1/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Stargate-Hydrogen-Brochure-September-2022.pdf copper salt = alkaline