Graphene-based Fuel Cell Membrane Could Extract Hydrogen Directly from Air

IEEE Spectrum ^ | December 2, 2014 | Dexter Johnson

[Nepeta]

It will be bought and kept out of the market by the oil companies (car companies, Saudis, conspiracy group of the day) like the carburetor that allows car to get 100 MPG.

If the need for oil as a source of energy for transport vanished next week, we'd still need oil --and a lot of it-- as a raw material for synthesize of a gazillion useful things.

[Organic Panic]

Tomorrow I could invent an energy that converts liberals’ good intentions in to limitless electricity. Liberals would still complain about it. And they would find an endangered 3 speckled toad to shut it all down.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. The graphene keyword is surprisingly long for something as chemically complex as the ‘lead’ of a pencil.

[GOPJ]

I hope people understand that if we start emitting h2o in large quantities THAT will be a big greenhouse gas issue!

Could you explain a little more...

[citizen352]

Andre Greim and Konstantin Novoselov won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for their work with Graphene. I guess it has some value. I do not know if their will be any practical purpose for us in the next 10 years or so.