The cars of the future could run on hydrogen, but there are multiple ways to obtain it
The hydrogen car is one of the most coveted dreams today. It allows us to move efficiently and without generating particularly serious greenhouse emissions. For this reason, almost all automotive brands are working hard to achieve the first functional hydrogen engines. However, this raises new, equally important problems. There is no point in manufacturing hydrogen cars if obtaining it is very polluting, which is why there are many scientific teams trying to achieve green hydrogen that is much more sustainable and accessible to everyone. Now, one team seems to have done it quite successfully, which gives us remarkably about the hydrogen caror at least to an affordable and clean energy source for it.
A perfect advance for the future of the automotive industry
A scientific team from the University of Nottingham and other institutions has published an article in the Journals of Material Chemistry A explaining a method in which they can convert metal waste into a catalyst that produces hydrogen from waterThus, the dependence on fossil fuels and precious metals such as platinum that They are usually very expensive could be massively reduced.
Dr. Jesum Alves Fernandes, one of the directors of the research, had the idea of using these metal waste to be able to apply them in the production of hydrogen, thus saving large sums of money in the process of creation of this gas that could serve to power the cars of the future. It is a sustainable method and also economically much more efficient than any other current method, since the use of very scarce metals made it hydrogen production would be very expensive.
For years, the achievement of green hydrogen together with red hydrogen has been the main concerns when it comes to obtaining this gas in massive quantities. Because in the past it was very expensive or very polluting, and the idea was precisely to replace it with fossil fuels so that it would stop producing a significant footprint in our atmosphere. Thus, they have discovered that these metal residues can serve as a perfect catalyst for the electrolysis of water.
These metallic residues could have served as a catalyst since, although they were apparently smooth, the truth is that they had grooves and ridges just a few nanometers wide. By depositing platinum atoms in them, they were able to assemble and allow electrolysis. Of course, it does not completely dispense with platinum, but its use is almost residual, since they used 28 micrograms of platinum to produce half a liter of hydrogen per minute with a single piece of waste.
By breaking this barrier when it comes to achieving a profitable and environmentally friendly business, researchers have achieved a milestone that can serve so that in the future human beings can enjoy hydrogen engines in our vehicles, being able to refuel them at a affordable price and without the big problems that currently existed.
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