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Related: About this forumMIT Engineers create truly green hydrogen gas using only seawater, soda cans, and caffeine

Engineers create truly green hydrogen gas using only seawater, soda cans, and caffeine
ZMEscience.com | Rupendra Brahambhatt | August 1, 2024
The global shipping industry is alone responsible for three percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions humans produce. If nothing is done to make shipping green, in a few decades, this sector will produce over 10 percent of the emissions.
A new study from MIT researchers reveals a practical and scalable solution to this problem. The study authors have devised an emission-free approach to produce green hydrogen fuel for maritime applications such as boats, naval ships, commercial vessels, and even submarines.
What’s even more interesting are the ingredients the researchers used. They claim that they can make hydrogen fuel using old soda cans, seawater, and caffeine...more
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/engineers-create-truly-green-hydrogen-gas-using-only-seawater-soda-cans-and-caffeine/
13 YEARS AGO
Oh well, better late than never.

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MIT Engineers create truly green hydrogen gas using only seawater, soda cans, and caffeine (Original Post)
Caribbeans
Aug 2024
OP
Very cool. Smart inventors will heal our planet, certainly not the industrialists.
Clouds Passing
Aug 2024
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Clouds Passing
(4,320 posts)1. Very cool. Smart inventors will heal our planet, certainly not the industrialists.
Irish_Dem
(67,813 posts)2. But how do billionaires get richer with a low cost energy source?
MIT engineers need to watch their backs.
PatrickforB
(15,199 posts)3. Alchemy at its best. n/t
et tu
(2,136 posts)4. so cool!
now cf 45 can stay on the boat and leave
the poor sharks alone lol~