What do you think of this?
This was a link from Yahoo's main home page.
" New technique creates cheap, abundant hydrogen: report"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071112/sc_afp/ussciencefuel
""This process produces 288 percent more energy in hydrogen than the electrical energy that is added in the process," said Bruce Logan, a professor of environmental engineering at Penn State."
"Clean, carbon-neutral hydrogen on the horizon"
http://live.psu.edu/story/27233?rss=49
2007-11-12 16:58:43 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It looks legitimate and quite promising. If it really is economically viable now, it looks like a very good thing. Hydrogen is a dangerous material to handle, but if this works on a small scale, it can be generated where it is used.
2007-11-12 18:12:40 · answer #1 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The technology offers a way to cheaply and efficiently generate hydrogen gas from readily available and renewable biomass such as cellulose or glucose, and could be used for powering vehicles, making fertilizer and treating drinking water.
Numerous public transportation systems are moving toward hydrogen-powered engines as an alternative to gasoline, but most hydrogen today is generated from nonrenewable fossil fuels such as natural gas
2007-11-12 20:51:25 · answer #2 · answered by jalal j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋