ZEEP24 - A New Energy Supply System Converts Sunlight Into Hydrogen

Both the artificial and natural disasters keep on haunting Japan for decades and often gives a break to the peoples normal life by means of electrical power supply outages. Researchers in Japan keep on searching for a new way to give an uninterrupted power supply to the whole nation even at the time of disasters. In that search, hydrogen was always being their main interest and they keep on researching to find a way to make use of hydrogen to get clean energy.

#-Link-Snipped-#As a milestone in their journey Japan’s FC-R&D released a new simple home energy system that makes use of sunlight, water and hydrogen to generate electricity 24×7. During day time the solar panels will convert the sunlight into electricity for homes and the excess electricity generated will be converted into hydrogen for the future use. The hydrogen which would be produced through the process of electrolysis requires very less space compared to conventional batteries due to their high energy density.
 In a country like Japan “where both the parents are working and children’s going to school as no one will be at home”, a very less amount of electrical energy would be utilized at daytime. Hence this conversion of excess energy into hydrogen will work well in Japan and can generate more hydrogen energy for future use.
According to FC-R&D, ZEEP24 utilizes hydrogen alloy containers which will absorb hydrogen. As a result, the wastage of hydrogen through discharge when not in use would be avoided. This ZEEP24 would be manufactured without using any carbon compounds and hence there would not be any occurrence of carbon induced deteriorations normally found in ordinary batteries.
To take this product to the next level FC-R&D was working on attaching this hydrogen storage container directly to a hydrogen powered car.
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