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Dash of sugar, bit of weed killer … and voila! Fuel cell
By | September 30, 2009
Making a fuel cell from sugar and weed killer sounds like something from an episode of “MacGyver,” which featured an ever-resourceful secret agent who could create life-saving gadgets from bits of twine and bubble gum … but it’s actually a real achievement by researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU). Chemistry professor Gerald Watt and his research team discovered they could tap the energy in sugar by using a common herbicide as a catalyst . “Carbohydrates are very energy rich,” said
Source:Dash of sugar, bit of weed killer … and voila! Fuel cell
Topics: Hydrogen Fuel Cell |
