Japanese Company Has A Car That Runs On Water.

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Here is a way to make hydrogen gas out of water and its new to me!A liquid metal alloy called"Galinstan" is allowed to soak onto the surface
of an aluminum electrode or object,dropped into plain water and bubbles off hydrogen until the metal is all used up.Thus opens up the way to use of fuel cells. http://nanohub.org/topics/SplittingWaterUsingAluminum  triffid
This is the first place I heard about it. http://www.instructables.com/id/SODA-CAN-HYDROGEN-GENERATOR/



a u-tube video on it  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhroR7oELwA&feature=channel

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Here are instructions for building a fuel cell at home.  http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-A-Simple-Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell/ triffid


Its only 4% efficient.And uses water as an electrolyte.And  platinum coated nichrome wire.


http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/echem/fuel_cell/fuel_cell.html  they sell pt coated wire at $14.31 a foot.In their "hot stuff" catagory.

These are not fuel cells.

The term "fuel cell" arrives from NASA's work on space craft where there is a requirement
to GENERATE ELECTRICITY from a source of compressed hydrogen gas.

i.e. completely the opposite.

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Well Paul-R,You are right that two wires in a glass of water is not a fuel cell,but it might show the principle?Did you already know about Galinstan?Its been around a while I guess?Yesterday was the first time I learned it could be used to make hydrogen on demand.That Galinstan could be used to make that pressurized hydrogen?triffid

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I read somewhere that that 5 psi of hydrogen is fed into a real hydrogen fuel cell.