Light metal hydrides show a high potential for reversible hydrogen storage applications. In view of the potential future storage of large amounts of hydrogen, an economic tonnage scale production will be required. This view point set introduces production methods and discusses the potential for simplifying processing routes and reducing costs in view of an industrial mass production. For this purpose, sodium alanate, for which a cost-competitive production on large scale is considered to be feasible already to date, is used as an example for future promising hydrides like complex hydrides or reactive hydride composites.
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