PhysOrg: Discovery is a step towards pollution-free cars

PhysOrg: Discovery is a step towards pollution-free cars: "At the present time, no existing hydrogen storage technology meets the challenging performance required to make hydrogen-powered automobiles competitive with traditional vehicles. New and innovative ideas are needed. The Liverpool and Newcastle researchers have found a workable method of injecting the gas at high pressure into the tiny pores - of ten to the minus nine metres in size - in specially-designed materials to give a dense form of hydrogen. They then reduce the pressure within the material in order to store the captured hydrogen safely. Heat can be applied to release the hydrogen as energy, on which a car could potentially run. "



So another case of watch this space. It's nice to see a British contribution -again! Let's hope we suport it like we haven't done in the past with British inventiveness.