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In an article  dl23+@andrew.cmu.edu (Damon Wayne Lipparelli) writes:
>... looking for any information concerning materials research in
>the field of Hydrogen Energy.  He's looking for the current progress in the
>field (ie, what's being done, who's doing it, and how are they doing whatever
>they're doing.) ...
>Please send any replies to me:  dl23+@andrew.cmu.edu

Are you talking about hydrogen-combustion energy, the basis of the
"hydrogen economy" dream? Storage technology (Lithium hydride?)?
Combution technology ? Production technology ? Materials?!?

Or are you talking about spin-polarized hydrogen? This stuff's supposed
to have the highest energy yield per pound of any non-nuclear energy
source. Apparantly the Army is big on this stuff. I think it works
like this : take a whole bunch of monatomic hydrogen. Make all the
spins line up the same way ( with a big mag-field, I guess ). This
stores a tremendoues amount of energy in the stored hydrogen. Then
relax the magnetic field and get energy out as some (eventually half)
of the atoms flip to the opposite spin.

I'm just guessing on the details. But as I said, the Army is funding
some research on this stuff, I've heard.
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