Hydrogen via Aluminum: From Soda Cans to Submarines
Even though the technique isn't quite out of the lab yet, Hydrogen Power in Seattle is already thinking about how to commercialize a process for producing hydrogen from aluminum powder.
August 23, 2007

I have a short segment in this week's "Inside Renewable Energy" podcast, about a Seattle company called Hydrogen Power that produces hydrogen from aluminum powder. Their plans for commercialization are quite interesting.
My report (excerpt) is part of a larger story by podcaster Stephen Lacey on how the process works, including an interview with a Purdue University researcher.
Hydrogen isn't renewable energy per se, rather it's a currency in which energy can be saved and transferred. Aluminum processing is energy intensive, but hydrogen allows a clean energy source to provide electricity to areas not connected to it by wires.

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Is Stephen Lacey the researcher with the eye patch that was interviewed on Discovery?
Posted by: Thomas P. McKay | February 5, 2008 09:04 PM