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Well it’s a liquid. My understanding of fuel cells is they need an ionic exchange membrane that the hydrogen nuclei pass through while the electrons do some work in a circuit to the other side. At the very least this gives us an idea of how being better able to search quantum interactions/“scenes” just might make a lot of technological impossible s suddenly possible.

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The real question:

Does it have military applications?

Catalytic converters, so the tanks will pollute less.

Could we bubble the hydrogen through the liquid?

What’s going to push the electrons anywhere?

Warning, I’m talking about stuff I know way too little about:

So I wonder whether being liquid makes this less helpful in a fuel cell. If I understand fuel cell chemistry enough, platinum would be on either side of the actual proton exchange membrane to form the anode and cathode. I see a liquid being problematic in that scenario as it would slosh around instead of making a circuit.

More helpful would be some sort of solid state of platinum (preferably something cheaper) on either side that conducted the electrons away to the poles.

But this definitely shows there’s interesting stuff to be found with these methods. Might just someday find that perfect fuel cell material.

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