This Fueling Station Fills Vehicles With Clean Hydrogen From Dirty Water

No, it isn't the water that is turned into fuel; it's the substances in it instead.

Sloppy Journalism Alarm! Arrrroooooooooga! Arrrooooooooga!

Very sloppy! They are really using the methane gas as the hydrogen source.

....which begs the question as to why it is necessary to split the hydrogen from the carbon, as CO₂ formation releases energy too.

Too bad there isn't some way to cut out the middle man.

Go for it.

Argggggh. What journalistic garbage. Poop makes methane --we've known that for decades. Methane is used to make commercial hydrogen -- we've been doing that for decades. So where is the news?

I guess the idea is to add expense and complexity to fueling a car. It's not as if we have a compelling need to free up more CO2, which is what the methane-to-H2 process does. Natural gas works fine as a car fuel, is simple to use, and can be used in a cheap car. The proposed alternative requires numerous process steps, and requires a hideously expensive car to make use of the H2.