Eureka! Purdue scientists turn water into hydrogen
The fuel cell-powered Honda FCX
(Credit: CNET Networks)In what looks like an example of modern-day alchemy, scientists at Purdue University in Indiana have come up with a way of turning water in hydrogen using an aluminum alloy. If the process is replicable on a large scale, it could have a massive impact on the market for hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars, which could use the technology as a source of onboard hydrogen generation.
The process relies on the use of aluminum pellets, which are mixed into liquid gallium (a metal that liquefies at just over room temperature) to produce a liquid aluminum-gallium. When water is added to the compound, the aluminum reacts with the oxygen to form a gel along with free-standing hydrogen, which can be collected and used to power a fuel cell. According to EDN, an Indiana-based start-up already has a license to commercialize the technology.
Many of the major automakers, including Honda, and General Motors, have invested heavily in developing fuel cell-powered cars. However, to date hydrogen has faced significant obstacles to becoming a viable alternative to gasoline, principally the expensive (and often carbon-fueled) process of isolating it, and the lack of a fueling infrastructure. The Purdue development has the potential to address both of these issues.
The Purdue announcement is the latest development in the race to create sustainable, on-demand sources of hydrogen. Earlier this year, a start-up company called Ecotality announced that it had enlisted the help of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop an advanced hydrogen-production process using magnesium and water.
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They think we have the option to reduce our dependence on oil. But some of us who can't live closer to the city because it's expensive have to drive to work. Try to take the train and you'll see that it's FULL and there's not enough out there to meet the demand right now.
We'll just have to wait and see.
two further benefits from this kind of production of hydrogen. we will produce great amounts of oxygen if we produce enough hydrogen to run autos. we can feed that back into the atmosphere. it can't hurt.
also nuclear plants yield a large amopunt of excess heat, which we can use to distill water and feed into our drinking supply. this was one of the original ideas used to promote nuclear energy plants, but it somehow got lost along the way
there is even a better process to get Hydrogen from water with the Dr. Linnard Griffin catalystic process.
You only need a few metals, that work as a catalyst and
get free hydrogen from water. The calatyst is not consumed !
Also you donīt need to recycle anything !
Have a look at:
http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,518.0.html
Regards, Stefan.
admin of www.overunity.com
The Dr. Griffin technology is the real watercar technology,
the hydrogen on demand technology we have all been waiting for !
It is just the REAL breakthrough ! See:
http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=11039
Only water is consumed and splitted into HHO !
No electricity needed !
Have a look at the videos in my forum:
http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,518.0.html
Regards, Stefan.
Then there's the energy for processing the metals and the toxicity of the metals, which rather than being confined to industrial areas, is traveling around in cars waiting for an accident to spill and pollute.
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by bassboat8
June 15, 2007 10:23 PM PDT
- I see that the naysayers have their atypical negative attitude. Perhaps they
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1 | 2 | Next 10 Comments >>should get off their duffs and try to help rather than hinder. Their type are not
what made America great and never will. And don't give me that save the planet
garbage, that is more egotistical than most can bear. A negative person will
never accomplish anything except hollow criticism. Kudos to those at Purdue.
Keep it up!!!