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Apr

Sugar: The Next Hydrogen Car Hope

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Hydrogen-powered cars are here already. BMW, Honda and GM have all made them. The problem is ??? besides their extreme cost ??? that there???s no cheap and abundant source of hydrogen production out there. Scientists from Virginia Tech have developed a process that can convert sugar from plants ??? cellulose ??? into hydrogen.

They combine the sugar with water and a batch of enzymes and tah-dah: hydrogen. Of course, it???s

not really that easy. The resulting amount of hydrogen is too low for commercial use, the group says, but it could be the first step into developing a realistic way to produce consumable hydrogen.

New system makes hydrogen from plant sugar (UPI.com)

Original post by David Thomas

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