Cheaper hydrogen production as fuel

  • Reading Time:2Minutes

Some of the aircraft of the future will certainly run on hydrogen, so it is vital that it be cheap and easy to produce. Physicians at the University of Houston have built a catalyst for water decomposition from readily available and inexpensive raw materials. Their device is much more efficient and stable than before, and as a result, it can play a major role in the process of water-based hydrogen production.

“Hydrogen is the cleanest and largest source of energy available on Earth,” said Paul Chu, founder and lead scientist at the university’s Superconductor Center. And water could be the most abundant source of hydrogen if we could effectively separate hydrogen from the oxygen that is strongly bound to it. Exactly such a method is reported in the Journal of the American Academy of Sciences, PNAS, by Chu and colleagues, Zhifeng Ren and Shuo Chen. Their catalysts used in the process lack the usual expensive materials, iridium, platinum or ruthenium. Iron-containing metaphosphate was used instead of hard-to-obtain materials to coat nickel foam. The catalyst performed well during the tests and was stable for more than 20 hours. “There are catalysts with quite exceptional performance,” notes Zhifeng Ren, “that can only be used for an hour or two. It makes no sense. ” One of the biggest problems for the world’s green energy industry is that intermittently generated electricity should somehow be stored so that it can be used when it is needed. Hydrogen would be an ideal candidate for this, but there is a lack of a cost-effective and efficient solution for producing the material. The new catalyst can help in this, if it can be produced in industrial quantities.

Recent article

EVTOL & VTOL News & Articles

CycloTech Presents First Air Car with CycloRotors

EVTOL & VTOL News & Articles

The flying ambulance arrives at lightning speed

EVTOL & VTOL News & Articles

The electric car revolution could continue in the air

EVTOL & VTOL News & Articles

Unmanned aerial taxis flew in a unique formation

Electric airplane News & Articles

NASA’s Innovations: Soaring into an Electrified Flight Future

EVTOL & VTOL News & Articles

Could eVTOLs and Air Taxis Replace Public Transport ?

Drones News & Articles

Harnessing Nature’s Flight: The Bird-Inspired Drone

Additional aircraft News & Articles

The Morphobot: An Innovation in Multimodal Robotics

News & Articles Points of interest

The Dawn of AI Air Travel: Airbus and its Vision for Autonomy

Air taxi News & Articles

Volocopter’s High-Flying Ambitions for the Olympics

News & Articles Propulsion-Fuel

The Horizon of Aviation: Airbus’ Vision for 2035 and Beyond

EVTOL & VTOL News & Articles

A Shift in Aviation Licensing and Training

Drones News & Articles

Russia’s Path to Drone Supremacy

Air taxi News & Articles

Israel’s Pioneering Venture into Drone Transport

Air taxi News & Articles

More efficient air taxis in the future

Air taxi News & Articles

Testing of perhaps the most promising air taxi begins

Additional aircraft News & Articles

Navigating the Future: Autonomous Helicopters Soar High

EVTOL & VTOL News & Articles

Embracing the Future: Seoul’s Leap into Urban Air Mobility
More articles you may be interested in...

Air taxi News & Articles

Israel’s Pioneering Venture into Drone Transport

As the sunrises on another era of technology, drone taxis are no longer a figment.......... READ MORE

Air taxi News & Articles

More efficient air taxis in the future

As we catapult ourselves deeper into the 21st century, we are continually met with technological.......... READ MORE

Air taxi News & Articles

The Coming Electric Air Taxi Revolution: Competing with Train Tickets ?

The Dutch company, Electron Aviation, is making a bold promise that is set to disrupt.......... READ MORE

News & Articles Propulsion-Fuel

Unveiling the Whisper of Innovation: CycloTech’s Exploration into CycloRotor Noise Levels

In the fast-paced realm of aeronautical engineering, the introduction of CycloRotors has heralded a paradigm.......... READ MORE

Points of interest

Sailing the Skies in Style: Airbus’s Novel Vision for Air Travel

Navigating the dawn of a fresh chapter in aviation, Airbus recently shared its audacious plans.......... READ MORE

Drones News & Articles

Boosting Agriculture: A Drone Revolution Awaits in Budapest

The stage is set in Hungary, as it stands on the brink of an exciting.......... READ MORE

News & Articles Propulsion-Fuel

Embracing the Future with Rolls-Royce’s Revolutionary UltraFan Engine

Just when you thought the apex of innovation had been reached, Rolls-Royce challenges the notion.......... READ MORE

Air taxi News & Articles

Testing of perhaps the most promising air taxi begins

For some of us, the very idea of an air taxi evokes scenes straight out.......... READ MORE