---
title: "A Truly “Green” Source of Renewable Energy: Grass Harbors Hydrogen"
description: "A team of researchers have shown that significant amounts of hydrogen can be unlocked from fescue grass with the help of sunlight and a cheap catalyst. Hydrogen may soon be used as renewable energy for it does not produce any harmful gas."
date: "2016-07-25"
modified: "2016-07-25"
authors:
  - name: "Arra Dianne Hifarva"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/arrahifarva"
url: "https://futurism.com/a-truly-green-source-of-renewable-energy-grass-harbors-hydrogen"
categories:
  - "Energy"
  - "Renewable Energy"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "cellulose"
  - "Hydrogen"
  - "photocatalysis"
  - "renewable energy"
---

# A Truly “Green” Source of Renewable Energy: Grass Harbors Hydrogen

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A team of scientists from the Cardiff Catalysis Institute of Cardiff University and Queen's University Belfast have discovered a cheap, efficient, and sustainable way to harvest hydrogen. The element is hiding in fescue grass, a common lawn grass, and can be unlocked with the help of sunlight and a cheap catalyst.

Co-author of the study Professor Michael Bowker, from the Cardiff Catalysis Institute, said: “This really is a green source of energy.

![Fresh young green fescue grass in a lawn](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bigstock_fescue_grass_sm.jpg>)
*[Source](<http://www.greengrassok.com/blog/bid/172077/Seeding-Fescue-Grass-in-Tulsa-Should-You-Overseed-in-the-Spring>)*

“Hydrogen is seen as an important future energy carrier as the world moves from fossil fuels to renewable feedstocks, and our research has shown that even garden grass could be a good way of getting hold of it.”

These findings, published in the Royal Society journal *Proceedings A,* may have a significant impact in the field of renewable energy. Hydrogen has great potential because it has high energy content and it does not release any toxic and harmful gases when burnt.