Driving on Starch?

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This is pretty awesome. Finally a viable way to get rid on our dependency on gasoline! Or so it seems...

[...]a team of U.S. researchers has developed a new sugar-to-hydrogen technology. Why not put the starch inside the tank of your car?

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The vision is for the ingredients to be mixed in the fuel tank of your car, for instance. A car with an approximately 12-gallon tank could hold 27 kilograms (kg) of starch, which is the equivalent of 4 kg of hydrogen. The range would be more than 300 miles, Zhang estimates. One kg of starch will produce the same energy output as 1.12 kg (0.38 gallons) of gasoline.

Here's the link if you want to take a look.