IF YOU want to go green, get out your nutcrackers. Scientists in Britain say
hazelnuts could provide the hydrogen to power the fuel-cell driven cars of
tomorrow. Fuel cells use hydrogen to generate an electric current, and
researchers are trying to make them efficient enough to power electric and hybrid cars
(Â鶹´«Ã½, 25 November, p 34).
But no one has decided how that hydrogen will be best produced.
But now Murat Dogru of the University of Newcastle says hazelnuts could be an
answer. He says Turkey, the world’s largest producer, incinerates around 250,000
tonnes of shells a…
