[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Won’t they have to get above 300 percent in order to break even with the added electricity?

[Hunterite]

More grand plans, theories, and futurism. I’m full, thanks.

[crazyshrink]

Sounds good!

Add this info to this posted study and it seems to be moving along better and better.

University of Virginia Scientists Discover Record-Breaking Hydrogen Storage Materials for Use in Fuel Cells

http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=3273

[ConservativeMind]

Ping to you, sir.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Cellulouse ?

Why not use sewage? Compost heaps?

Wetlands?

Dead liberals? 8<)

[Candor7]

generated hydrogen gas at nearly 99 percent of the theoretical maximum yield using aetic acid, a common dead-end product of glucose fermentation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Aetic Acid?

Is that related to lysergic acid diethylamide?

Aetic Acid. Never heard of it.

Maybe the article means Acetic Acid?

Just use the LSD, and then you can have a trip without getting in the freekin electric car.

LOL

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" also can be used to convert wood chips into hydrogen to be used as fertilizer. "

Could they also use leaves from trees also ? or does it have to be wood ?

[steelyourfaith]

~~ AGW™ ping~~

[Brilliant]

Another one of those miracle technologies that is going to revolutionize everything. If I only had a dime for every one I’ve read about...

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Cost of energy in must be less than value of energy out. Or else it’s a failure.

[Red Badger]

Hydrogen ping!

[Teacher317]

Was hydrogen (the universe’s most abundant element) in short supply?

[secret garden]

Did they mean to say acetic acid and not aetic acid?

[William Terrell]

Couldn't this create electricity resistant bacteria, dooming our planet?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

This process produces 288 percent more energy in hydrogen than the electrical energy that is added in the process,

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Cool! - Then use that added energy to turn a wheel which in turn generates electricity and we have a perpetual motion machine! Just damn!

[Kevmo]

I haven’t read this article yet, but it might be suitable for the renewable energy ping list.

[RightWhale]

Efficient? Not at all. But as a means to get energy independence it won’t hurt anything but the budget.

[Flavius]

another could be breakthrough

[Scotswife]

hydrogen is so...explosive.

People being people - I am imagining all sorts of terrible accidents for workers at the plants - and also for drivers in unfortunate accidents.

Can anyone put my mind at ease?

[SunkenCiv]

Novel technique for cheap and abundant hydrogen
Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
COSMOS magazine

The new method developed by engineers at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, U.S., combines electron-generating bacteria and a small electrical charge in a microbial fuel cell to produce hydrogen gas. Microbial fuel cells work through the action of bacteria, which can pass electrons to an anode. The electrons flow from the anode through a wire to the cathode producing an electric current. In the process, the bacteria consume organic matter in the biomass material. An external jolt of electricity helps generate hydrogen gas at the cathode. In the past, the process, which is known as electrohydrogenesis, has had poor efficiency rates and low hydrogen yields. But environmental engineers Shaoan Cheng and Bruce Logan were able to get around these problems by chemically modifying elements of the reactor... In laboratory experiments, their reactor generated hydrogen gas at nearly 99 per cent of the theoretical maximum yield using aetic acid, a common dead-end product of glucose fermentation. "This process produces 288 per cent more energy in hydrogen than the electrical energy that is added in the process," said Logan... One of the immediate applications for this technology is to supply the fuel for electric fuel cell vehicles – but it could also be used to convert wood chips into hydrogen to create fertiliser, said the researchers.