article_snippet.sent: Now, researchers from India's Benaras Hindu University may be close to solving this problem using coconut kernels to store hydrogen in gas form.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Viney Dixit and his team, at India's Benaras Hindu University’s Hydrogen Energy Centre created carbon from coconut kernels, which contain fatty and organic acids as well as potassium, magnesium and sodium.
article_snippet.sent: his says that the kernels, which are easily found, are cheap and can easily be converted into carbon.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Unlike graphene, Carbon nano tubes (CNTs) and other type of carbons, the production of carbon from solid endosperm is not time taking, his wrote in a research paper.
article_snippet.sent: The researchers found that the carbon produced from the kernels could store a ‘considerable’ amount of hydrogen.