World's Cheapest https://refractor.io/tag/worlds-cheapest/ World's Cheapest en-AU Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:04:40 GMT Japanese company lays claim to world's cheapest hydrogen production process https://refractor.io/science/japanese-company-lays-claim-to-worlds-cheapest-hydrogen-production-process/ FUKAI's functional water generators (left) and a hydrogen-extraction demonstration (right)

At least half of the world’s usable hydrogen is obtained through a process known as steam reforming, in which steam reacts with fossil fuels such as natural gas to produce hydrogen gas. On a smaller scale, hydrogen can also be obtained through the process of electrolysis, in which ordinary water is split into its oxygen and hydrogen components by running an electrical current through it – consumers can even buy their own electrolysis-based home hydrogen extraction kit, in the form of the HYDROFILL. Now, however, Japan’s FUKAI Environmental Research Institute has announced a new technology for obtaining hydrogen that it claims is less expensive and more efficient than anything that’s been tried so far.

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]]> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:04:40 GMT https://refractor.io/science/japanese-company-lays-claim-to-worlds-cheapest-hydrogen-production-process/ Ben Coxworth