Easy Hydrogen Power from Water.

1. Mick
   May 18th, 2007 at 10:27 pm

   Looks like Doctor Hook there in the middle got some in his eye.

2. Thomas
   May 18th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

   How much energy does it take to make the alloy?

3. Nate
   May 18th, 2007 at 11:20 pm

   Yarrrr! We be making treasure with our science!

4. Nora
   May 19th, 2007 at 12:18 am

   Yarr its new energy, and energy be makin money.. and money buys dubloons...and grog!

5. K
   May 19th, 2007 at 12:46 am

   Anyone but Purdue! They're already investigating one of their own professors, Rusi Taleyarkhan, for making fraudulent claims about fusion. And because Purdue officials are too cowardly to stand embarrassment, their "investigation" will have even less credibility than the professor's research.

   As for the aluminum alloy, pardon me if I remain a skeptic for a little while.

6. jj
   May 19th, 2007 at 1:03 am

   sigh

   we have a perfectly sustainable energy source with solar and wind power, but no, lets replace gas with some other exhaustable resource. hydrogen may be cleaner burning, but doesn't it still release carbon dioxide?

   i think its clearly obvious. we need bigger hummers and other ridiculously over sized vehicles, how else am i supposed to accentuate my small penis?

7. steph
   May 19th, 2007 at 1:37 am

   I was just here for the pirate comments. I was not disappointed. Yar!

8. Camillo Miller
   May 19th, 2007 at 5:59 am

   yarr !!! If it ain't real , they're gonna be food for the sharks!

9. Nicholas Dollak
   May 19th, 2007 at 6:33 am

   Re: jj's comments ---

   The article mentions nothing about carbon dioxide, which, along with carbon monoxide, is associated with burning fossil (carbon-based) fuels such as oil & gasoline. As far as I know, the only waste product of hydrogen fuel is water. This process, assuming it actually works, produces only water and aluminum oxide as waste; and it looks like they have a plan for how to handle the AlO. (Since AlO exists as a solid at Earth temperatures, it doesn't pollute the atmosphere. Don't eat it, though!

   I kind of figured that gallium would be the sticky wicket here, but it seems like they've crunched the numbers there, too. And even if it means stopping to refuel a little more frequently, I won't mind if all it means is carrying a jug of water and a box of pellets in the trunk. No more hunting for a service station that's still open at 11:00 PM! And any opportunity to cut my expenses while allowing me to get to work & back is welcome.

   I'm not ready to buy stock in the industry just yet. K. brings up a good point about Purdue's track record in the fuel technology department. For now, I've printed up the article for my files, and remain cautiously optimistic.

10. Brandon
    May 19th, 2007 at 7:34 am

    A tenant of a local apartment building thought it might be fun if he tried to make a hydrogen fuel cell using a modified pressure cooker.

    Hilarity ensued:
    http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/05/firefighters_resident_ being_tr.html

    http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/2007/05/mercurypoisoning_victims_l ose.php

11. Nyrath the nearly wise
    May 19th, 2007 at 7:55 am

    If you read the article closely, you will see that the system is basically "burning" (i.e., oxidizing) aluminum as fuel. Is aluminum cheaper than gasoline?

    No, JJ, as you should have learned in Chemistry 101, burning hydrogen produces hydrogen oxide, better known as water. The combustion can produces some nitrates, which will have to be scrubbed with a catalytic converter.

12. Marty the Chemist
    May 19th, 2007 at 9:48 am

    Hey genius at 1:03....where might the carbon come from to make carbon dioxide? Hydrogen burns (mixes with oxygen) to form...guess what? H2O.

13. neato
    May 19th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

    Let us not forget that one of the by-products of burning hydrogen is the controversial chemical dihydrogen monoxide, or DHMO. Learn more about this scary chemical at: http://www.dhmo.org/

14. LongJohn
    May 19th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    We used to mix aluminum foil with drain cleaner to make hydrogen gas, then fill balloons with it and make explosions in the sky. And as far as aluminum goes, it is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust. Of course, it still is'nt a renewable fuel source.

15. TK
    October 2nd, 2007 at 3:05 am

    Hey Neato,

    Lets not forget the millions of tons of toxic crap that comes out of every diesel engine on this planet. More toxic than petrol.

    And of course all the inventors who have disapeared or silenced in the name of cheap renewable energy.

    They had an alloy doing producing this reaction in 1957.

    Of course, they didnt want to stop selling oil... so it disapeared.

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