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credit Courtesy of PowerNova TechnologiesPowerNova Technologies President and Co-Chairman Robert Oralbekov said both big oil companies and environmentalists can embrace his company’s catalyst. The catalyst, made with iron and iridium, could be used to release hydrogen from gasoline in an emissions-free reaction aboard hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, he said. credit Courtesy of PowerNova TechnologiesWilliam C. Kaska, […]


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PowerNova Technologies President and Co-Chairman Robert Oralbekov said both big oil companies and environmentalists can embrace his company’s catalyst. The catalyst, made with iron and iridium, could be used to release hydrogen from gasoline in an emissions-free reaction aboard hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, he said.

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William C. Kaska, director of PowerNova Technologies, holds an early model of the prototype for the catalyst that will make gasoline into a storage medium for hydrogen aboard fuel-cell vehicles.