Will This New Toyota Hydrogen Car Change the World?

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I think the bold is rather the key. Battery powered cars have range problems and also rare-earth mining/sourcing (Afghanistan/China???) problem which I think could be solved by hydrogen but the problem still remains of obtaining hydrogen; You need to expend one resource to tap that resource.

Here is a possible solution ---

http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/31/...er-and-lasers/

Inexpensive Hydrogen Fuel From Water — Producing Hydrogen With Charcoal Powder And Lasers
Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/31/...deECtU7Fbi0.99 Originally published on sister site Green Building Elements.

A new, relatively inexpensive means of producing hydrogen fuel from water — relying on charcoal powder and lasers — has now been created by researchers. The new method owes its relative affordability to the cheaper materials involved — charcoal and carbon powder rather than expensive catalysts or high-power electric currents.

As of now, though, the technique is only proven on very small scales — until the method is modified to produce larger quantities of hydrogen, applications will be limited.
Akimoto’s team tested carbon and charcoal powders by adding them to water and beaming a laser in nanosecond pulses at the mixtures. The experiment generated hydrogen at room temperature without the need for costly catalysts or electrodes. Its success provides an alternative, inexpensive method for producing small amounts of hydrogen from water.

The new research was just published in ACS’ Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

The researchers acknowledge that they received funding from the Original Research Support Project of Wakayama University.



Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/31/...deECtU7Fbi0.99