A few days back, we introduced you to Drapcho, a biosystems engineer at Clemson University, who is quite busy making hydrogen from rotten peaches. Well, what say about making hydrogen on your own from water? Sounds great! Inspired from Jerry M. Woodall’s experiment at Purdue University, some ingenious fellow has made hydrogen from activated aluminum and water. While the Purdue university team uses aluminum dissolved in gallium, this guy has used a drop of liquid metal, which he bought from eBay and aluminum from a soda can to produce hydrogen from water. The strips of aluminum from soda cans are covered with the liquid metal and then dipped in water. The energy dense activated aluminum works as the storage medium and releases hydrogen ‘on demand’ when exposed to water. After the reaction is over, the resulting aluminum oxide is transferred to a power generator plant that turns it back to aluminum. We have no idea about the cost-effectiveness of this DIY thing, but it’s interesting enough to be given a try.
via AutoblogGreen
