The car manufacturers have it wrong – we don’t need hybrids or electric cars. We need cars that run on discarded junk food containers – like the DAlH2Orean remote-controlled car! Two Spanish engineers from the Polytechnic Institute of Catalonia figured out a way to power the little car with soda can tabs.
The aluminium tabs are mixed with sodium hydroxide and water to create a small hydrogen fuel cell that emits zero CO2 emissions. The little skamp can go 32km/h for 40 minutes, which is impressive when you consider that the Chevy Volt goes for about 64km on a charge. Wonder if they’ve considered soft drink tabs over at GM… [DAlH2Orean via Popular Science]
Rob
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 5:18 PMHey Gizmodo, Those tabs are actually made from titanium :)
morgothedoomsayer
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 6:22 PMOxidising metallic aluminium i’snt going to solve the worlds energy shortage. :P
The used to call it “solid electricity” because of how much energy it took to extract the purified metal from metal-ore.