Global Technology – November 2011

Now let’s focus on this month’s most important advances in technology.  We’ll begin with a breakthrough that could lead to an inexhaustible source of energy. Research by Penn State engineers, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that pure hydrogen fuel can efficiently be produced from the world’s virtually limitless supply of seawater, river water, and biodegradable organic matter.  In fact, this system could produce hydrogen fuel anyplace that there is waste-water near seawater.  It uses no grid electricity and is completely carbon-neutral.....