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Gasoline-sourced hydrogen favoured over methanol for vehicle fuel cells.(The Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry)(Brief Article)
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Japanese High Energy Efficiency & Clean EnergyTechnologies
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December 1, 2001
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The Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry has established and funded a new R & D project, to be supervised by it's New Energy Foundation, with the aim of finding a practical viable technology enabling gasoline to be used as the source of hydrogen as the fuel, in fuel cell powered vehicles.
Standard forms gasoline provided from service station pumps are not acceptable in their present form, principally because they contain pollutant sulphur.
Fuel cells in road vehicles are powered by electricity generated through chemical reaction that combines hydrogen with oxygen in the air. This is an ideal, non polluting, and non global warming process, as the combustion action ...