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Seawater, caffeine, cans: MIT has the recipe for on-demand hydrogen.
Sea water becomes a source of clean energy thanks to an innovative MIT process that uses recycled aluminum and caffeine.
Take some pure aluminum from your soda cans, soak it in filtered seawater, add a touch of caffeine, and voila: you've just created clean hydrogen. MIT engineers Aly Kombargi(left) e Niko Tsakiris(right) work on a new reactor to produce hydrogen gas by mixing aluminum pellets with seawater.What about caffeine? Transforming waste into clean energy, using (not exploiting, I emphasize) abundant resources such as sea water, and doing it in a sustainable way: it is every environmentalist's dream come true.
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