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The world’s first commercially available line of hydrogen-powered domestic products, including a barbecue, a bicycle and most crucially a unit that creates and stores hydrogen power, has been developed by an Australian company, LAVO, working with the University of NSW.
The LAVO battery, which is about the size of a large fridge, can be hooked up to an existing array of solar panels. Inside it, electrolysers use that power to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Professor Francois Aguey-Zinsou, Chief Scientist at the UNSW Hydrogen Energy Research Centre, with hydride used to store hydrogen in a newly developed battery.