A worker walks between stacks of high purity aluminum ingots at the RUSAL aluminum smelter in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk April 4, 2007. Pellets made out of aluminum and gallium can produce pure hydrogen when water is poured on them, offering a possible alternative to gasoline-powered engines, U.S. scientists say. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
When will we see “BIG ALUMINUM” attacked by the Sierra Club?........
This heads in the right direction, but why not just use water to power an internal combustion engine?
He’s not the only one that has done this, he’s just the one who got pattents on it. The Ausies use H2O2 generated from water to run the generators on their ‘stations’. The engines aren’t designed for it, and have to be replaced now and then, but it does work.
The same technology could be used in an automobile if the engine was modified slightly to burn H2O2. The problem is in keeping the valves and seats from melting and keeping the exhaust manifold from rusting out.