Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Clean hydrogen fuel from sound

This is cool. This is amazingly simple. I wonder how this would play out economically.
A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made crystals of zinc oxide that, when immersed in water, absorb vibrations and develop areas of strong negative and positive charge. These charges rip apart nearby water molecules, releasing hydrogen and oxygen gas.
The new materials could be used to develop systems that generate hydrogen from the noise of anything from machinery to crashing waves

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