Nalfion is a fluoropolymer. I was recently discussing the degradation pathways of Nalfion with my son. It's not pretty.
There are thousands of papers written on the topic of ion transport polymers for fuel cells, but after decades of research, Nalfion is still in production.
There are still thousands of papers written every year on the ORR (Oxygen Reduction Reaction) and the 4 electron transfer required, because fuel cells perform sluggishly and platinum is expensive and is also an endangered element. To my knowledge, the ORR is still problematic.
I have written here extensively on the severe and worsening issue of persistent fluoropolymers that is now being observed worldwide. It is yet another crisis brought on by indifference and selective attention.
With all due respect, here's how I take your comments:
We can pile the world higher and higher and higher with fluoropolymers, and other difficult materials, let Canada become a tropical rainforest even if all of central Africa, Central America, Central Asia become flaming deserts just so long as we can guarantee that their won't be a tuna fish with a few atoms of cesium-137 swimming in the Pacific ocean because of leaks at a nuclear power plant.
It never ceases to amaze me that people who consider themselves "environmentalists" will tear up every pristine wilderness, let people die in trichlorosilane explosions with only obscure commentary, for a trivial amount of energy mine the shit out of the planet, let the accumulation rise faster and faster and faster rather than accept the fact that nuclear energy is the safest and most reliable energy system ever developed by humanity.
Will all Indians and all Southern Chinese, Indonesians, Vietnamese and Central Africans be granted environmental refugee status in the new tropical Canada?
Do you know why so many ersatz "environmentalists" object to nuclear power? The reason is that it will make all of the solar energy dithering and all of the wind power dithering unnecessary.
Like Trump, they can never accept that they were wrong - dead wrong, and people are dying from this bizarre insistence - and will let enormous tragedy take place to prevent exposure of their dogma make them look like fools. Nevertheless, like Trump, they are fools.
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