Sugar Powered Hydrogen Cars
Sugar gets us rolling, why not cars?
Chemists are describing development of a “revolutionary” process for converting plant sugars into hydrogen, which could be used to cheaply and efficiently power vehicles equipped with hydrogen fuel cells without producing any pollutants.
The method is being described as the most efficient method for creating hydrogen ever introduced. Of course this method isn’t anywhere near having an impact on our savings account. As always, anytime something introduced int he hydrogen fuel world it is at least 8-10 years away. This is no different.
The process involves combining plant sugars, water, and a cocktail of powerful enzymes to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide under mild reaction conditions.
“This is revolutionary work,” says lead researcher Y.-H. Percival Zhang, Ph.D., a biochemical engineer at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. “This has opened up a whole new direction in hydrogen research. With technology improvement, sugar-powered vehicles could come true eventually.”
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Filed under: Energy Tech, Science by JMH
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