Hydrogen power

Engines that use hydrogen as fuelare environmentally the most suitable, but a sufficient supply of fuel isthe only impediment to the massproduction of such engines. Metal-lurgical engineers from the BaikovInstitute of the Russian Academy ofSciences, Baikov have now found away out. An alloy of lantan andnickel that they have developed hasthe amazing property of absorbing,retaining and transmuting hydrogen at as low a temperature as150C. The volume of hydrogenabsorbed is almost 1,000 times morethan the volume of the alloy itse'fand the alloy retains its initial efficiency of accumulation and absorption even after multiple uses.