A Cheaper Way to Produce Hydrogen (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A Cheaper Way to Produce Hydrogen

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Stanford graduate student McKenzie Hubert watches a catalyst produce bubbles of hydrogen in a small, lab-scale electrolyzer. The catalyst, cobalt phosphide, is much cheaper than the platinum catalyst used today and could reduce the cost of a process for making hydrogen - an important fuel and industrial chemical - on a large scale with clean, renewable energy.

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Jacqueline Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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