Clean Fuel Breakthrough Turns Water Into Hydrogen at Room Temperature

[hunter]

6. Um, it takes a lot of electricity and high temperatures to refine aluminum.

If you made an automobile powered by this stuff it would be a metallic aluminum powered car, not a water or hydrogen powered car.

The thermodynamics of this process are appallingly awful. Use this process to power a fuel cell and all you've really got is a remarkably inefficient aluminum battery.

This is some interesting chemistry here but not in the "hydrogen as a fuel" sense, which is a bad idea anyways.

If you've got the zero-carbon energy to make aluminum nanoparticles from aluminum ore, then you've also got the energy to make more conventional fuels out of atmospheric or oceanic carbon dioxide.

It's an unfortunate reality of modern science that people who don't even have a basic understanding of science control most of the money. It seems every research project has to be framed as a potential breakthrough in medicine, replacement for fossil fuels, etc., to receive funding.