A team of Korean scientists has developed a new method of storing hydrogen as a solid, easing potential complications associated with the commercialisation of fuel cell technology.

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Describing the "amazing" breakthrough, PhD student Lee Hoon-kyung said: "The material binds hydrogen with absolutely no energy input and the hydrogen can then be extracted using relatively small amounts of energy."

Color me skeptical.

Then, I'm basically skeptical about the entire concept of hydrogen as fuel. For the billionth time, you need to get hydrogen from somewhere, usually requiring the input of a lot of electricity. The whole thing only works right if we find some clean (e.g. not fucking coal) ways of generating electricity.

Don't get me wrong, there's something to be said for moving the pollution out of the city itself and centralizing it around power plants, but it's not exactly getting the same as eliminating the stuff, is it?

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