Nickel Hydrogen?

[Anonymous]

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[paultrafalgar]

I suspect these are just what is commonly called NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride) batteries. I could be wrong. Eagle-Picher of Joplin, Missouri make exotic batteries for space stations etc. Those may be another kind of animal, but are probably way too expensive for us.

 

[RLT]

Yeah, I'd bet that it is just 'something lost in translation'. Hydrogen---> Hydride ; Closer than a lot of translations I've read.

 

[dirty_d]

i looked it up, they are batteries with gaseous hydrogen in them, they need to be in a pressure vessel because when charged the pressure gets up to 20 bar. they used them on the space station i guess.