Hydrogen has long been seen as the energy source of the future. Non-polluting, abundant, it could be the ideal fuel for cars, airplanes, even large power plants.
The one hurdle is that separating hydrogen from water requires more energy than the energy generated when hydrogen is consumed as a fuel.
BlackLight claims to generate more energy from hydrogen than it takes to cull the gas from water
This could be changing. According to BlackLight Power of Cranbury, N.J., scientists at Rowen University found a way to generate more energy than it takes to create hydrogen and produced a previously undiscovered hydrino in the process.
“The energy released forming a hydrino is over 200 times the energy required to extract hydrogen from water by electrolysis to produce the new hydrogen fuel consumed,” says a BlackLight release. The company has developed a solid-chemical fuel as a catalyst for the reaction.
A hydrino is a low-energy form of hydrogen.
The results appear to be step toward large-scale commercialization of hydrogen fuel. A paper discussing the work is published in the Central European Journal of Physics.
Posted by Mark Boslet 
