Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen

An anonymous reader writes "A mechanical engineer working out of the University of Delaware has come up with a way to produce hydrogen without any undesirable emissions such as carbon dioxide. The solar reactor is capable of using sunlight to increase the heat inside its cylindrical structure above 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Zinc oxide powder is then gravity fed through 15 hoppers into the ceramic interior where it converts to a zinc vapor. At that point the vapor is reacted with water separately, which in turn produces hydrogen. If the prototype gets through 6 weeks of testing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology located in Zurich, we could see it scaled up to industrial size, producing emission-free hydrogen."

Comments

Darn that dirty hydrogen

[retroworks]

Finally, a source of clean hydrogen.

Re:Darn that dirty hydrogen

[Fluffeh]

Finally, a source of clean hydrogen.

That is true, but isn't one of the big problems with Hydrogen storing it, not just producing it? I mean, don't get me wrong, it is excellent to see that part of this "we want to use hydrogen" problem solved, but a lot more still needs to be done.