Thanks to Terry and Keith for the "poetic license" humor. :-) For penance you might help me find a patent by R.J. White (prior to 1974) at the Chevron Research Labs (Richmond, California ?)
He claimed that glucose plus water + heat + Catalyst (exothermally) goes to CO2 + H2 same as I did on my patent search: C6H12O6 + 6 H2O ---> 6 CO2 + 12 H2 IOW, 18 lbs of Glucose + 10.8 lbs H2O + heat + catalyst converts to 26.4 lbs of CO2 + 2.4 lbs of H2, meaning that sugar water as an on-board hydrogen source has a hydrogen storage weight of 30.8/2.4 or less than 15 lbs/ lb H2. You can bet that Professor Dumesic is well aware of this as a practical hydrogen storage means. OTOH, I got good hydrogen yields by using Nature's water-soluble "Reforming Catalyst" Potassium Carbonate (K2CO3) leached from wood ashes. The K2CO3 builds up as biomass is converted this way. It works quite well on starch and cellulosic plants too, and gets around the alkali degradation of catalyst support materials. The saccarification and fermentation of starch from corn into fuel ethanol, isn't nearly as energy efficient as this approach. Frederick
