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Hydrogen Fuel Cells Running On Sunflower Oil
tigersaw writes "You've heard about Biodiesel , Greasecars, and Fuel Cells for a while now. At yesterday's meeting of the American Chemical Society, researchers from the University of Leeds in England described a novel approach that combines these ideas in a fuel cell device that employs steam and two separate catalyts to generate hydrogen using sunflower oil. Experimental results show a hydrogen yield of 90 percent, versus 70 percent in other hydrogen fuel cell technologies. 'The sunflower oil used is the same type found on grocery shelves. "We would happily toss our salad with it," says the researcher, who adds that the process can also work with other types of vegetable oils.'"
They toss their own salads?
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"We would happily toss our salad with it,"
They need a much, much better PR person.
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A car that runs on flower power?. Wouldn't that make the ultimate hippy car?
Especially as a VW combi van.
I told myself, once tossing salads became a common part of slashdot, I would have to switch fields.
That's it I now officially hand in my slashdot account.
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