Remember in junior High Science class when your teacher turned water into hydrogen and Oxygen by using a battery for electricity? Well. It turns out the reason that worked was the Platinum electrodes. Platinum being the most expensive metal (non alloy) is too expensive for every person to own so they could generate their own hydrogen and oxygen from a gallon of water to power their hydrogen powered electrical generators or cars or trucks for one day.
Well an MIT researcher has discovered an inexpensive catalyst that can be if I understood him correctly painted on a test tube set into a gallon of water to make hydrogen and Oxygen. I believe I heard this on a yahoo news video. The researcher said that his work had been proven and published and that MIT now had the patents on it and it is being developed worldwide.
The up side to this is that this will allow anyone to turn water into hydrogen and oxygen to power a generator, car, truck or motorcycle or whatever. So, basically, if you have the solar capacity anywhere on earth you could generate hydrogen and oxygen to operate your equipment if it has been converted to burn hydrogen.
That was the good news. The bad news is that if this gets common worldwide it could eventually become a problem for humans and life on earth because water is in a finite quantity. And when you burn Hydrogen some of it returns to a water state but some hydrogen is lost in combustion to other elements (possibly like helium). So since hydrogen is needed to make water as water is combusted as hydrogen and Oxygen there will be less hydrogen to make water to drink, to moisturize the air to grow food, to be in lakes and streams and oceans etc. So even though this is a good idea the consequences need to be weighed as well in regard to its effects on all life on earth including all our descendants in the future.
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