Nuclear Power Plants Can Produce Hydrogen to Fuel the "Hydrogen Economy"
Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 20:00
in Physics & Chemistry
The long-sought technology for enabling the fabled "hydrogen economy" -- an era based on hydrogen fuel that replaces gasoline, diesel and other fossil fuels, easing concerns about foreign oil and air pollution -- has been available for decades and could begin commercial production of hydrogen in this decade, a scientist reported here today at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society.