Report: Ratan Tata pours $15M into project researching water as fuel

AutoBlog Green 03 January 2011

The lure of extracting hydrogen from water in a somewhat real-time fashion in sufficient quantities to power an automobile has so far been a complete dead-end pursuit. One of the biggest problems is that it takes more energy to release the hydrogen from its water-tight bonds than is actually returned by that hydrogen.

But those basic laws of physics haven't stopped scientists with well-funded checkbooks from trying. The latest endeavor comes from Daniel Nocera from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is being funded by Indian businessman Ratan Tata, who, among other things, heads the global automaker that bears his name, Tata Motors. At this time, the total grant comes in at $15 million.  read more.

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In fact, the energies considered clean should have more investment by the government, to have cheaper fuel without degradation of the environment.

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