From: henry@spsystems.net   
      
   In article <20040206205528.06160.00000170@mb-m21.aol.com>,   
   BllFs6  wrote:   
   >>...centers on finding a way to   
   >>stabilize H, so you can invest all that energy on the ground, and release   
   >>it in flight without having to carry the powerplant along.  Unfortunately,   
   >>nobody has yet found any workable stabilizing technique.   
   >   
   >could you trap a solitary H atom inside something like a buckyball?   
      
   Such approaches have been suggested -- although I'm not sure it was recent   
   enough for buckyballs in particular to be mentioned -- but they wouldn't   
   make very good rocket fuels, alas.  The whole point of H is the enormous   
   energy *per unit mass*; if it takes a buckyball (mass = 720) to contain   
   each H (mass = 1), that just doesn't work out very well.   
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