Instead, we would transport aluminum as the ‘fuel,’ and just add water to produce the hydrogen that we need.” The first test of the idea will be a small underwater glider which, according to their ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claim they can efficiently produce hydrogen from recycled aluminum cans in seawater by combining them with gallium-indium and caffeine.

Fuel cells powered with the metal could provide a new source of electric power that's far more energy-dense than lithium-ion batteries. A new type of fuel cell that runs on sodium metal could one day ...