Chinese and British scientists try to give a push to hydrogen economy

Two-thirds of the water here is hydrogen,” said Professor Z. Xiao Guo, as he took a bottle of pure water on the desk, to explain why hydrogen was one of the most promising alternatives of the energy sources in the future.

Guo, from Department of Materials, Queen Mary, University of London, is working on the storage of hydrogen, “the most abundant element on the earth”. The storage of hydrogen is only one of the problems that scientists are trying to solve before the use of hydrogen as energy can be commercialized.