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Caribbeans

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Thu Aug 1, 2024, 06:02 PM Aug 2024

MIT 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 #1
But how do billionaires get richer with a low cost energy source? Irish_Dem Aug 2024 #2
Alchemy at its best. n/t PatrickforB Aug 2024 #3
so cool! et tu Aug 2024 #4

Irish_Dem

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2. But how do billionaires get richer with a low cost energy source?
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 07:12 PM
Aug 2024

MIT engineers need to watch their backs.

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