Spoon fed

could you be feeding spoonfuls of sugar to your car in the future instead of filling it with petrol? Not exactly but glucose could be a cheap source of hydrogen fuels for many things including the vehicles we drive.

Researchers say they have found a relatively effortless way to extract the clean fuel source of hydrogen from a glucose solution. Glucose can be obtained from a variety of renewable sources. "We are at the (laboratory) bench experiment stage so far,' says Jim Dumesic, who leads the research team at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, usa. He noted it was far more efficient and quicker than the alternative of using bacteria to break down plant material such as maize to generate hydrogen (Reuters News Service).

The research found that heating the sugar solution to 200