MIT Turns Soda Cans and Sea Water Into Green Hydrogen

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have unveiled a process that generates hydrogen fuel using recycled soda cans and seawater, with overall carbon emissions on par with green hydrogen technologies. This approach relies on a chemical reaction between aluminum in the soda cans and water, which produces hydrogen.  In its natural state, aluminum rapidly forms a thin oxide layer when exposed to air, which prevents any further reaction. To get around this problem, the MIT team used a rare gallium-indium alloy to remove the oxide…