HYDROGEN-POWERED CARS A team from the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Liverpool in the UK have discovered a safe way of storing and releasing hydrogen to produce energy using nanoporous materials. The researchers found a workable method of injecting hydrogen gas at high pressure into the tiny pores in specially-designed materials to produce a dense form of hydrogen. In order to store the captured hydrogen safely, the pressure is reduced within the material. Heat can be applied to release the hydrogen as energy, on which a car could potentially run. Professor Mark Thomas of Newcastle University's Northern Carbon Research Laboratories in the School of Natural Sciences, said, "Now that we have a mechanism that works, we can go on to design and build better porous framework materials for storing hydrogen, which may also be useful in industries that use gas separation techniques."
