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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. small and slippery glass spheres... by layer3switch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "The glass spheres should be so small and slippery [...] there would be no risk of explosion or fire if a leak occurs."

    I sense, "slip and fall" litigation rate on the rise. Harvey Birdman, where are you?

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