Breakthrough in extracting hydrogen from water

Fahrvergnuugen writes: "An interesting article on Popular Mechanics talks about a breakthrough in the hydrogen generation process:

Futurists promise that hydrogen will replace fossil fuels someday. There's just one problem: Today, 95 percent of the world's available hydrogen is extracted from natural gas. Getting hydrogen from water, the greener alternative, is too expensive to be practical. Or it was, until a recent innovation by engineer Richard Bourgeois and his colleagues at a General Electric research facility in Niskayuna, N.Y.

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