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DOE Selects New Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence
13 October 2008
The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently selected the team for negotiation of cost-shared awards to participate in a new Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence. The team will be led by Savannah River National Laboratory and consists of ten partners that include universities, industry and federal laboratories.
DOE expects to provide up to $6 million in fiscal year 2009 for these projects, subject to availability of funds. The Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence is a virtual center that is anticipated to run for approximately 5 years.
The selected teams will address the engineering challenges associated with developing low-pressure, materials-based hydrogen storage systems. These projects will be incorporated into the DOE’s National Hydrogen Storage Project. The team partners selected for negotiation of awards are:
- Savannah River National Laboratory (Lead), Aiken, South Carolina
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
- United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, Connecticut
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado
- General Motors Corporation, Warren, Michigan
- Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan
- Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
- Lincoln Composites Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska
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Posted by: ejj | October 13, 2008 at 06:09 PM
Perhaps hydrogen storage will become the cash cow of chemical energy research for seventy years similar to hydrogen fusion research.
Nature has spent billions of years and billions of gigajoules to show that hyrogen is well stored with carbon in lipids and carbohydrates and amino acids.
Posted by: Henry Gibson | October 17, 2008 at 03:43 PM
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I am not opposed to government research in government labs like this - but we should also be have various x-prizes set up with major incentives for competitive research in the private sector, and let the government labs verify the results of the research before doling out the cash. The incentives don't necessarily have to be cash based; there could long term tax breaks for example. ...ejj...