Sweet-hope it does not take years and years to get to the table-and or bought out and snuffed by large energy corporations and governments-we need this stuff NOW-where is the fast track?

Like many other breakthroughs, how many decades will it be until this catalyst is actually in use outside the laboratory?

This won\'t make any difference in H2 use as H2 has more serious problems beside electrodes. My EV goes 4-8x\'s as far on the same energy as a H2 car does at a much lower costs for the equipment.

Gee, we will soon be able to use mass quantities of water for fuel. Um... what about all that talk about water being a scarce resource and that there will be shortages in the not too distant future? Maybe we should find a way to make fuel out of waste products, or from fingernail clippings or something.

@kwalker they mention using sea water.

@kwalker i\'m pretty sure people are talking about fresh water when they talk about scarce resources. As the article states; this new catalyst can be used with sea water, roughly 2/3rds of the earths surface.

@kwalker: Um... there is no scarcity of sea water, which this system is supposed to work with.

Inexpensive new proton reduction catalyst - seventy times cheaper than the platinum commonly used now - that can significantly reduce the costs of producing hydrogen using electrolysis to split water into molecules of hydrogen and oxygen by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy\'s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley.will be a new approach to speed up HYDROGEN ENERGY AS CARRIER.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India.

Let\'s not forget that you can electrolyse H2 from water without using exotic catalysts. The electricity could come from solar cells

\"Gee, we will soon be able to use mass quantities of water for fuel\"
Electrolytic Hydrogen like this doesn\'t \"use\" water, it emits water from chemically \"burning\" the catalyst. So it\'s more like electrolysis is storing power in the catalyst and releasing it as heat(or electricity) and water. Maybe some water gets bound up in that cycle but it\'s a -cycle- of store and release. The question here should be what\'s driving the electrolysis. Much like the folks who are excited about their plug in cars, people forget that it\'s coal/petroleum/nuclear that makes the magic come out of that plug in their garage. Not actually... magic. -Boyd (who never even took a chem class)