Publication Date:06-June-2005
06:32 AM US Eastern Timezone
Source:Chinese People Daily

"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.

A delegation of Royal Society led by Sir David Wallace was in China last week exchanging with their Chinese colleagues their latest development of research on hydrogen fuel. They have visited top Chinese research institutes on hydrogen in Dalian, Shenyang and Beijing.
Their travel to China this time is an example of such links. It is one of the activities sponsored by UK around China under the support of the Chinese government for a one year program called UK-China Partners in Science.

In addition, they believe the clean energy, including the hydrogen, will narrow the gap between the developed nations and the developing countries. "It uses renewable and abundant resources. And developed countries need huge investment on changes of their fixed infrastructure to use it. But developing nations needn't do that because they have less fixed infrastructure," said Dr. Wallace.

Further details may be found in:
http://english.people.com.cn/200506/07/eng20050607_188932.html;
http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage2790.html;
http://www.stdaily.com/gb/stdaily/2005-06/06/content_395517.htm;
http://zqb.cyol.com/gb/zqb/2005-06/03/content_13536.htm