Inexpensive Nanosheet Catalyst Splits Hydrogen From Water 141
An anonymous reader writes "Traditional methods of producing pure hydrogen are either extremely expensive or release lots of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Now, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed an electrocatalyst that addresses one of these problems by generating hydrogen gas from water cleanly and with drastically more affordable materials. Goodbye platinum; hello nickel and ammonia."
Water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink! (Score:4, Funny)
Because they're converting it all into flammable lifting gas!
Whatever will we do?
Affordable (Score:3, Funny)
Cat pee and pocket change. I can handle that.
Re:Will it work? (Score:4, Funny)
The problem with this particular approach, if it does turn out to work well commercially, is that GW Bush will then have shown to be prescient in his hyping of the Hydrogen economy.
I, for one, have some very serious issues with this concept. Very serious indeed.
Re:So where is my car? (Score:2, Funny)
Silly mortal, only Jebus runs on water.
Re:That's not where most of the cost comes from (Score:4, Funny)
According to Graham's law, it would appear that the solution is to make the molecules bigger. However hydrogen doesn't seem keen to associate into groups larger than pairs.
Some have suggested that attaching the hydrogen atoms to chains of carbon atoms (say, six to ten of them) might do the trick, but I reckon that's crazy talk.
Re:Will it work? (Score:0, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw