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Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to EE Times, a California-based company called QuantumSphere has developed nanoparticles that could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline. The company says its reactive catalytic nanoparticle coatings can boost the efficiency of electrolysis (the technique that generates hydrogen from water) to 85% today, exceeding the Department of Energy's goal for 2010 by 10%. The company says its process could be improved to reach an efficiency of 96% in a few years. The most interesting part of the story is that the existing gas stations would not need to be modified to distribute hydrogen. With these nanoparticle coatings, car owners could make their own hydrogen, either in their garage or even when driving."
And a pony.
With fricken laser beams on its head. Is that too much to fricken ask?
Related post: Nano particles could make hydrogen cheaper than [some other very expensive commodity whose price has been driven up artificially]
It has been argued that gasoline in the US has been kept artificially low... in the UK it's close to twice the price in the US, and prices in the rest of Europe are similar.
I was about to post the same BS comment as you. The story starts out bad, and goes from there to tin-fil cap land.
"Did you know subscribers can see articles in the future?"
./ editor's head back between his/her ass, where it usually resides. If there is no embedded flash above, then consider the head and the practice both retracted :)
Did you know that if you link to the RSS feeds you can see the 'articles in the future' w/o having to pay? [slashdot.org]
Bonus tip: Firefox [mozilla.com] with 'Flashblock' will simply frame the above courtesy/inane embedded flash and you can once again stuff the