Method for producing hydrogen

[baantjer]

From the other forum:quote:An interesting article about a man from New Brunswick, Canada, who apparently has come up with a novel way of producing hydrogen gas. And it says he did this without ever having taken highschool Chemistry.
(Think of what he could have come up with if he had taken Chemistry...jk :-) )

Seeker

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/19/hydrogen040119

from the article ...
quote:With the help of chemist George Jenkins at the University of New Brunswick, Andersen got the U.S. patent and the attention of auto makers developing hydrogen-fuelled cars

I found the patents:

United States Patent 6,506,360 Method for producing hydrogen (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,506,360.WKU.&OS=PN/6,506,360&RS=PN/6,506,360)
and
United States Patent 6,638,493 Method for producing hydrogen (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,638,493.WKU.&OS=PN/6,638,493&RS=PN/6,638,493)

So it seems to be real.

A few more references:
hydrogen "Jim Andersen" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&edition=us&q=hydrogen+%22Jim+Andersen%22)