New heating trick makes hydrogen and graphite from methane 10x more efficiently
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Stanford researchers have developed a way to produce hydrogen from methane 10 times more efficiently by placing a burner inside the reactor instead of heating it from outside. This internal heating method burns a small amount of hydrogen, generates the needed heat, and emits mostly water vapor. A bonus discovery: the solid carbon byproduct is graphite, a battery material the US currently imports.
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