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  • Could metal particles be the clean fuel of the future?

    12/20/2015 2:14:30 PM PST · by Lurkina.n.Learnin · 38 replies
    ScienceDaily ^ | December 9, 2015 | McGill University
    Can you imagine a future where your car is fueled by iron powder instead of gasoline? Metal powders, produced using clean primary energy sources, could provide a more viable long-term replacement for fossil fuels than other widely discussed alternatives, such as hydrogen, biofuels or batteries, according to a study in the Dec. 15 issue of the journal Applied Energy. "Technologies to generate clean electricity -- primarily solar and wind power -- are being developed rapidly; but we can't use that electricity for many of the things that oil and gas are used for today, such as transportation and global energy...