I wonder if this couldn't be adapted as a safe storage & production method for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.... maybe not with beer cans per se (look officer, I'm just trying to get to work here. hee hee), but with blocks, rods, or pellets of material. Aluminum is not terribly cheep, but it is the most abundant element on the planet (most people think it's iron). There are probably lesser refined grades that could be cost effectively employed if properly adapted for this purpose.
Might be fun to do a D.O.E. on the process to find the 80/20 that maximizes the H2 production rate... once that analysis is complete, it should be pretty simple to figure out whether or not it's a viable vehicle fuel source strategy. Reminds me of 'Back to the Future' when the professor comes back from the future at the end of the movie and digs through the trash for empty beverage cans and banana peels to power the food processor looking mini fusion reactor he's installed on the back of the car... -john -----Original Message----- From: Frederick Sparber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Are we there yet? [snip] you can dissolve Zinc, or Aluminum beer cans in a warm aqueous NaOH or KOH (lye) solution in a steel vessel and generate H2 like gangbusters . This forms a water soluble Zincate or Aluminate "Catalyst".
