It’s about time somebody figured it out.
I thought I was going to have to do it myself.
I once heard a scientist speculate on what would happen if hydrogen could be produced cheaply and used to power automobiles. Its combustion product would be water vapor.
excellent
Desalinization has already achieved cost efficiency adequate to large scale production, but if hydrogen could be produced at a cheap rate, that would be excellent.
Why?
OK, the problem of rising sea levels solved. s/
Funny last sentence of the first paragraph.
I guess I am a “scientist since we use to make hydrogen balloons with my dad’s battery charger when we were kids.
P4L
Anybody know if a lifestraw works with salt water?
Not to be xenophobic - (well maybe a LITTLE) - but
Why the Hell does the UoH need to let some guy(gal?) from someplace in China (Ying Yu from the College of Physical Science and Technology at Central China Normal University) even get a fingernail’s worth of grip on this process?
Might as well give that person a room, photocopier and every research note taken by the USA team.
...And prepaid shipping labels to the destination of China’s choice for FULL DISCLOSURE of this world-wide game-changing technology.
The energy used to extract the hydrogen is greater than what the hydrogen will produce, so this is a net energy loss.
Unlike like evil dino oil, in which the net energy from a barrel is greater than what it takes to get it out of the ground and refine it.
FAIL!
Cali-fornia could mix the salt with all that fresh water they use to keep those 6 snail darters thriving upstream of San Francisco.
Fuel cells will be the future. Just add water.
“Closer to Commercialization”
I hope they figure it out but when I was a kid in the 70s I read all of these glowing articles in popsci about how PV, wind and H2 would be here in 10 years. Sort of like the fusion power systems are always only 15 years away.