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New Way to Make Hydrogen
zymano writes "Hydrogen is expensive to make and difficult to store. The most common way in making hydrogen is electrolyzing pure water. A new startup is trying a new way to make hydrogen. The process uses sodium which industry shuns because it generates sparks and heat when mixed with water. Signa has devised a way to mix sodium with silica gel or crystalline silicon to create a powder that essentially strips electrons from the sodium molecules in advance and stores them. When water is introduced, the chemical reaction proceeds calmly. The powder generates hydrogen efficiently. More than 9 percent of a kilogram of the powder gets converted to hydrogen and little energy is lost through heat."
Will be interesting to see how long this one spreads to all corners of the globe... I'll give it 10 minutes... starting.... now...
I love the "(caution: spoilers}" at the end of the page. Fucking hilarious.
Maybe they could find a way to use sodium and silica to make LSD! That'd be a real hoot!
Soylent hydrogen is people!
I can't fucking believe this got modded offtopic. It was hilarious.