Borax For Cars | Green Energy News

January 20, 2002 – Vol.6 No.43

BORAX FOR CARS.

Millennium Cell would like to see its Hydrogen on Demand (tm) hydrogen storage technology used for fuel cell vehicles. But are there enough borate reserves on the planet to supply sodium borohydride for Millennium Cell’s technology for the world’s fleet of automobiles? U.S. Borax, which hopes to be a supplier of borates, says yes.

According to a study by U.S Borax, there are 600 million metric tons of borates in viable deposits worldwide. If all of the 50 million cars produced each year had a Hydrogen On Demand system on board they would require 3 percent or 20 million metric tons of borates to fuel them. Since the sodium borohydride can be reused and regenerated (for the most part) this is all the sodium borohydride those cars should need in their lifetime. (We would run out of borates at 1.5 billion Hydrogen on Demand fuel cell cars planet-wide.)

Another study commissioned by Millennium Cell shows that Hydrogen on Demand is economically competitive in a full cycle analysis - from production to regeneration - with other hydrogen fuel technologies. Hydrogen on Demand vehicles would cost about the same as vehicles using compressed or liquid hydrogen, but less than those with a fuel reformer on board used to extract hydrogen from fuels such as methanol or gasoline.

This study also concluded that a Hydrogen on Demand vehicle might be considered safer by both passengers and the general public than those with compressed or liquefied hydrogen on board. Visit Millennium Cell at http://www.millenniumcell.com/ .