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AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR).

White hydrogen has recently gained attention for its potential to help replace planet-heating fossil fuels. It was only a couple decades ago that some scientists started saying this powerful fuel ...

Splitting water molecules takes more energy than calculations suggest, and is a key roadblock to cheap hydrogen fuel ...

When it is burned, hydrogen does not emit carbon, making it an attractive alternative to fossil fuels. There are widespread hopes it could be used as a sustainable fuel to heat homes and power ...

We know there is hydrogen and oxygen present ... typically the heavier component of rocket fuel. And a variety of people have figured out the chemistry involved in separating oxygen from these ...

Artist impression of a nuclear fission powered rocket ... using superheated hydrogen. "We're very encouraged by the positive test results proving the fuel can survive these operational conditions ...

Thus, to produce rocket fuel, the oxygen would have to be separated ... one that involves purifying ilmenite and then combining it with hydrogen (which could be obtained from water on the moon ...

Fuel cell electric vehicles use electricity to power an electric motor, just like a normal EV. However, FCEVs use hydrogen fuel cells to produce some of the electricity needed to power the vehicle ...

Here we explore why our sun won't live forever and what will happen when it finally runs out of fuel. When you purchase ... billion years when it runs out of hydrogen. We asked physicist Frederick ...