MIT Engineers Create Hydrogen Fuel From Soda Cans, Seawater, and Caffeine

29 Jul 2024 | Abstracted from Extremetech

"Using a small pellet of treated aluminum, the experimental setup generates 400 milliliters of hydrogen in just five minutes when exposed to deionized water... adding imidazole, a component of caffeine..can pierce the surface of aluminum, increasing the available surface area for hydrogen production."

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