Low Cost Alternative for Producing Hydrogen from Water

Hydrogen could play a key role in future renewable energy technologies if a relatively cheap, efficient and carbon-neutral means of producing it can be developed.  Currently, the best available technique for producing hydrogen is to split water molecules into molecules of hydrogen and oxygen using platinum as the catalyst.  There is tantalising research that shows that Molybdenite may offer an alternative to platinum at 1/70th of the cost.

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