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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. I wonder... by Gyga · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What keeps the glass from breaking, and how do you get them out of you car's hydrogen tank?

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  2. Let me be the first to say... by inode_buddha · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Great Balls of Fire!

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