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Hydrogen Fuel Balls from a Gas Pump?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the quite-a-racket dept.

navalynt writes "New Scientist reports that the Department of Energy has filed a patent for hydrogen fuel balls. From the article 'The proposed glass microspheres would each be a few millionths of a metre (microns) wide with a hollow center containing specks of palladium. The walls of each sphere would also have pores just a few ten-billionths of a metre in diameter.' They are supposedly safe and small enough to be pumped into a fuel tank in the same manner as gasoline."

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  1. Not compatible, sorry. by charlesbakerharris · · Score: 4, Funny

    My balls run on diesel. I guess I'm doomed to a life of ball-ular pollution... Plus if I use the wrong grade, they knock.

  2. Goodness Gracious... by Flimzy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great balls of fire!!

  3. Re:Oy, the usual hydrogen myths by enjo13 · · Score: 4, Funny

    H2 is so damn small that keeping it from escaping through seals and the walls of hoses is very difficult (same reason helium escapes so quickly from balloons, except H2 is even smaller.)

    Hydrodgen just wants to be free.

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