Submitted on June 24th, 2008 by BlueHorde (not verified)
Clearly the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) uses something akin to well known metal hydrides to separate hydrogen from water in the 'generation' step of the power cycle.
In other words, this is really just an electric battery technology that uses water in an open loop rather than closed loop chemical cycle. The equivalent of metal hydride in the MEA gets consumed in the reaction, and I'll bet dollars to donuts that the the MEA gets 'reformed' overnight by being plugged into the electrical grid, or worse case, is removed and replaced with a factory 'reprocessed' MEA at very very regular intervals.
This car doesn't run on water, it runs on the 'secret' material in the MEA - probably metal hydride.
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Clearly the membrane
Submitted on June 24th, 2008 by BlueHorde (not verified)Clearly the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) uses something akin to well known metal hydrides to separate hydrogen from water in the 'generation' step of the power cycle.
In other words, this is really just an electric battery technology that uses water in an open loop rather than closed loop chemical cycle. The equivalent of metal hydride in the MEA gets consumed in the reaction, and I'll bet dollars to donuts that the the MEA gets 'reformed' overnight by being plugged into the electrical grid, or worse case, is removed and replaced with a factory 'reprocessed' MEA at very very regular intervals.
This car doesn't run on water, it runs on the 'secret' material in the MEA - probably metal hydride.