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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have found that hydrates—an ice and natural gas compound that some researchers have explored as a source of alternativefuel or storage medium for CO 2 —can hold hydrogen at an optimal capacity of 5 wt %. —Sotiris Xantheas.
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