{"id":71687,"date":"2017-08-04T10:23:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T17:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/nano-aluminium-offers-fuel-cells-on-demand-just-add-water"},"modified":"2017-08-04T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T17:23:03","slug":"nano-aluminium-offers-fuel-cells-on-demand-just-add-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/nano-aluminium-offers-fuel-cells-on-demand-just-add-water","title":{"rendered":"Nano aluminium offers fuel cells on demand \u2013 just add water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nano-aluminium-offers-fuel-cells-on-demand-just-add-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By David Hambling<\/p>\n<p>The accidental discovery of a novel aluminium alloy that reacts with water in a highly unusual way may be the first step to reviving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20026841-900-whatever-happened-to-the-hydrogen-economy\/\">struggling hydrogen economy<\/a>. It could offer a convenient and portable source of hydrogen for fuel cells and other applications, potentially transforming the energy market and providing an alternative to batteries and liquid fuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe important aspect of the approach is that it lets you make very compact systems,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/anthony\">Anthony Kucernak<\/a>, who studies fuel cells at Imperial College London and wasn\u2019t involved with the research. \u201cThat would be very useful for systems which need to be very light or operate for long periods on hydrogen, where the use of hydrogen stored in a cylinder is prohibitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2142693-nano-aluminium-offers-fuel-cells-on-demand-just-add-water\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2142693-nano-aluminium-...add-water\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Hambling The accidental discovery of a novel aluminium alloy that reacts with water in a highly unusual way may be the first step to reviving the struggling hydrogen economy. It could offer a convenient and portable source of hydrogen for fuel cells and other applications, potentially transforming the energy market and providing an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71687","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}