Making Cheaper Hydrogen
Date: Monday, December 22, 2003 @ 16:40:33 UTC
Topic: General
By Peter Dizikes
Innovation News
December 2003/January 2004
Hydrogen-powered fuel cells could provide efficient, reliable power for everything from buildings to autos and wireless devices. But there’s a big problem: how do you get the hydrogen in the first place?
The most common methods of producing hydrogen—separating it from steam, extracting it from methanol or biomass such as corn, or simply splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen—are expensive and make the so-called hydrogen economy seem decades away. Scientists are making progress, though, by improving the catalysts employed in many of these hydrogen-producing reactions..."
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