Hydrogen Fuel Balls from a Gas Pump? 280
navalynt writes "New Scientist reports that the Department of Energy has filed a patent for hydrogen fuel balls. From the article 'The proposed glass microspheres would each be a few millionths of a metre (microns) wide with a hollow center containing specks of palladium. The walls of each sphere would also have pores just a few ten-billionths of a metre in diameter.' They are supposedly safe and small enough to be pumped into a fuel tank in the same manner as gasoline."
Not compatible, sorry. (Score:4, Funny)
Is this what AC/DC meant by (Score:3, Funny)
Goodness Gracious... (Score:5, Funny)
Chef's Hydrogen Fuel Balls (Score:2, Funny)
They're big and salty and brown.
If you ever need a quick pick-me-up
Just stick my Hydrogen Fuel Balls in your mouth.
Oooh, suck on my chocolate, salty Hydrogen Fuel Balls
(Put 'em in your mouth!)
Put 'em in your mouth and suck 'em...
Re:Oy, the usual hydrogen myths (Score:5, Funny)
Hydrodgen just wants to be free.
Re:How many kg of hydrogen per kg of palladium? (Score:3, Funny)
1. Setup fake gas station.
2. Substitute hydrogen gas pump for vacuum cleaner.
3. Profit!
Re:Not being a chemist (Score:2, Funny)
Supposedly that's how cold fusion works. It's said that the hydrogen atoms become so crowded together inside the paladium that they fuse together into helium.
...so imagine you are driving down the highway when suddenly cold fusion reactions start in your tank and you go up in a ball of flame. After all, if we are to believe the reports on cold fusion, the reactions always seem to start and stop in an unpredictable manner!
Re:Not being a chemist (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Goodness Gracious... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oy, the usual hydrogen myths (Score:3, Funny)
You'll contaminate the core (of the Earth). Sounds dangerous.