{"id":140499,"date":"2022-06-12T18:34:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/new-electrocatalyst-offers-hope-for-less-expensive-hydrogen-fuel"},"modified":"2022-06-12T18:34:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:34:05","slug":"new-electrocatalyst-offers-hope-for-less-expensive-hydrogen-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/new-electrocatalyst-offers-hope-for-less-expensive-hydrogen-fuel","title":{"rendered":"New electrocatalyst offers hope for less expensive hydrogen fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-electrocatalyst-offers-hope-for-less-expensive-hydrogen-fuel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a handful of ways to produce hydrogen fuel without emitting carbon into Earth\u2019s atmosphere. One involves using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>This method, known as electrolysis, requires a catalyst that speeds up <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> that occur within <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/hydrogen+fuel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen fuel<\/a> cells.<\/p>\n<p>More often than not, this electrocatalyst is platinum, a metal so rare that it\u2019s typically more expensive than gold, which makes the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/production+process\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">production process<\/a> more costly than traditional sources of renewable energy and fossil fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a handful of ways to produce hydrogen fuel without emitting carbon into Earth\u2019s atmosphere. One involves using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. This method, known as electrolysis, requires a catalyst that speeds up chemical reactions that occur within hydrogen fuel cells. More often than not, this electrocatalyst is platinum, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}