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October 20, 2008
With oil prices in free-fall and the world’s economies in the toilet, short-sighted governments and C02-denying GM execs will undoubtedly defer priority given to clean energies in the next round of fiscal budgets. Too bad, because Korea’s S&P Energy Research Institute has just issued a press release about a new discovery it claims puts the era of clean energy within reach. Dr. Sen Kim claims to have achieved the separation of Hydrogen with the same 90% (or greater) efficiency using just 0.1kwh of energy compared to the traditional 4 - 4.5kwh required using the ol’ electrolytic method. Dr. Kim postulates that “manufacturing the H2 by our method will lower the cost of H2 as much as 20 - 30 times” compared to electrolytic H2. That makes SPERI’s method suitable for H2 fuel production from say, an in-home hydrogen fueling station. So is this the solution to all of our clean energy concerns? Perhaps, but we’ve heard these economical hydrogen-generation claims before. Let’s wait for the claim to be more thoroughly vetted by bigger brains than our own before getting too hopeful.
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