The Beginning of Hydrogen

October 16, 2024  •  EPISODE 235

Have you ever heard of Gold Hydrogen? Find out more on Science LIVE! This week, we dive into the story of how Roger Billings developed the world’s first hydrogen car and explore the potential of natural hydrogen deposits that could play a key role in shaping the future of energy on our planet.

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Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology. As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.


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155 Comments

  1. Autumn Coleman

    So cool!

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  2. Nevaeh Maxie

    So cool

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  3. Dylan Willis

    How does gold and hot water turn into hydrogen?

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  4. jade champlain

    I love this episode! I definitely want to have a hydrogen car.

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  5. Andrew Gideon hicks

    Roger Billings made me so fascinated with hydrogen.

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  6. Ally jarvis

    I liked the picture of that vintage lawnmower; it holds a lot of history in it 😀

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  7. Mina Lane

    hydrogen is so cool!

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  8. mackenzie

    I like DrB and the hydrogen

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  9. Andrew Kaltreider

    I had no idea hydrogen could be so useful!

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  10. Dillen

    Hydrogen can really help in the long run

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  11. Brilee Patterson

    Wow I had no idea hydrogen could be used for so many different things!!!

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  12. Hannah Hope

    Wait was Acellus Gold name inspired by Gold Hydrogen or is that just a coincidence?

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  13. Zachary Hatchew

    Very cool episode

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  14. Edan Langston

    I want to go see Mars

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  15. Leilah Peterson

    Space exploration is amazing

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  16. Brandon Wordlaw

    I love math tiles… thanks for creating it.

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  17. Deanna woods

    A Hydrogen car is so cool!

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  18. Lillian Barkan

    I think that space and Mars are such an awesome thing I hope that one day life can be on Mars and humans can be on Mars we know that Roger Billings or Elon Musk is going to take us to Mars.

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  19. Teagan Oliver

    LOVE SPACE X!!

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  20. Isabella Nesmith

    Hydrogen is Awesome!

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  21. Elisiyana Louis

    The idea of using hydrogen to power cars seems like sheer genius! It had never crossed my mind that something other than your standard everyday gas could be used to power a vehicle!

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  22. julius young jr

    what made you think to use hydrogen to make an engine

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  23. Mazzy

    cool! Hydrogen car!

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  24. Jade

    Just so you know the hydrogen car was so awesome

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  25. Julian Grim

    That was cool

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  26. Ian Mcgrath

    Hydrogen is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  27. Amelia Russell

    Hydrogen cars are so cool. Crazy how you were able to create a hydrogen powered bus!

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  28. Amelia

    Hydrogen cars are so cool. Crazy how you were able to create a hydrogen powered bus!

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  29. Zoe Meadows

    Hydrogen Energy is so Cool! I really hope it is used more in the future.

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  30. Aleyna Ritualo

    Gold hydrogen creates oil, thats why there are so many, well back then.

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  31. Campbell Dean

    How many different sources of hydrogen are there?

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  32. Brayden Ballesteros

    “Why didn’t you quit?” Somebody asked. Roger Billings then said, “I wasn’t that smart. I was like a caveman screaming, “HYDROGEN, HYDROGEN!” He’s got passion and soul. We should be proud of Dr. RB for not giving up and even insisting that hydrogen works, still works, well done.

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  33. Edward Crawford

    That’s awesome

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  34. julia grace powell

    hydrogen is so amazing and useful in this world!

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  35. Liam

    Nice job yet again I enjoy watching these

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  36. Jada R. S. Pace-Kitchen

    This was an awesome episode.

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  37. Nylah McMillan

    I love R.51!!! He is so funny. I also agree that we should make a movie about Dr. Billings and the first hydrogen car.

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  38. Hailey Wallace

    that was cool

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  39. Max McCall

    Hydrogen fuel has a high energy density, ignoring the weight of the storage tank. It’s better than gas and much better than batteries. Creating the hydrogen gas is akin to inefficiently charging high capacity batteries.

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  40. Emilyanne Castrodad

    This is the most interesting Science Live episode I’ve seen yet! Hydrogen is extraordinary! I can’t believe there are so many different sources of it, and that we’ve been living on top of gold hydrogen that has been regenerating right below our feet.
    Dr. Billings truly broke barriers in the science world. The story about the origin of his hydrogen engine made me believe that I can break barriers too. Sometimes what we think is impossible is really just undiscovered.

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  41. James Hines

    Watching again from AZ

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  42. Brieanna Wright

    I LOVE learning about hydrogen

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  43. Jaden

    It is all about the H over here.

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  44. Maximilian

    In the beginning, there was…

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  45. Kyle angus

    using Hydrogen in cars is something I would never have thought of! Truly genius indeed.

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  46. Rebekah Wright

    the hydrogen car is so cool!

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  47. Laci King

    this was great

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  48. Megan Hoskins

    I love hydrogen can’t wait to see what happens next

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  49. Megan Hoskins

    I love hydrogen! It’s so fun and so useful!

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  50. Aidan Griser

    When did the idea that a hydrogen car could be made come to you? When did you realize that your dream was becoming a reality?

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  51. Harley Gonzales

    Hydrogen is so interesting and it can be used for so many things

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  52. jonbailey haas

    how about hydrogen 3 in space and Antarctica?!? more power and is less harmful.

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  53. Aden Neumyer

    i like that there was a video game for a educational math learning.

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  54. Malia Rodriguez Potts

    How cool

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  55. Kayla Ferguson

    I love the math drills. Such a great idea!

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  56. Lily Ferguson

    Impressive that Mr. Billings was only a kid when he started his hydrogen car inventions

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  57. Jessica Romero

    pretty cool

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  58. Carmela Myers

    this video was so awesome!!

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  59. Amber Lilly

    I wish I had a hydrogen car!

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  60. Hannah Nyaho

    the club is cool.

    I live in Vermont.

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  61. Illana M. Alif

    Wow, really cool.

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  62. Maryam S.

    Who invented solar panels?

    And, how much hydrogen is in the earth?

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  63. Ariana Mauldin

    These videos are all great and everyone makes them so much fun to watch. I really enjoyed seeing how the bus worked and look forward to seeing the advancements we make with hydrogen vehicles.

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  64. Keira P.

    That was a great story.

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  65. Emelia Van Pelt

    How does the hydrogen not blow up like what happened to the blimp?

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  66. Ghita

    Good , really this subject of hydrogène is very interesting

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  67. Ronnie Horner

    I loved this episode of science live.

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  68. stanley

    this is cool.

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  69. Passion Waldon

    Watching from Texas.

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  70. Gunnar Bendorf

    Hydrogen is an amazing element and with the amount of it in the universe, we should use it as much as possible!

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  71. barrett pirtle

    I liked when they talked about the wheat and how some people are allergic to wheat so they produced something that gluten free people could eat too.

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  72. Ava Cleveland

    HYDROGEN is Much more My TIPE hydrogen is very cool stuff when you mix hydrogen peroxide with bleach it starts to bubble

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  73. Joshua Lewis

    I am just astonished 🙀

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  74. Eva

    I wonder where the advanced ideas of hydrogen will take us. Will there be new discovered sorces of energy in the future?

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  75. riley daniel

    this was a very interactive learning video with lots of information

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  76. Calvin Evans

    It’s so cool learning new things from the science love crew!

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  77. Calvin Evans

    I never knew hydrogen had been along for so long?

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  78. calvin evans

    i never knew this was how hydrogen began its really cool to see this stuff

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  79. Zoe Smith

    Could hydrogen completely replace gasoline in the future, and how reliable would it be?

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  80. Nathan W Tanner

    A hydrogen car would be so cool to own

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  81. Liberty pabst

    This live was so funny I enjoyed it!

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  82. Levi Parypa

    It is so impressive that Dr. Roger Billings made the first hydrogen-fueled car as a high school senior. I hope I can achieve something significant when i’m in high school, too.

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  83. Becker Eisele

    what a good show i love it

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  84. Lela Eisele

    such an awesome episode!

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  85. Chelsea Jerome

    Are hydrogen cars going to make it out into society? When they do are they going to be cost friendly?

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  86. Paige Pendergrass

    such an interesting topic!

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  87. samantha

    so good

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  88. Michael Tymofy II

    interesting! I love these videos

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  89. Maddison Tymofy

    Wow, this is really cool!

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  90. Angelina

    I love hydrogen cars!

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  91. Ranulph zapf

    Awesome

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  92. Cory D.

    I always love watching these science lives, they always spark an interest on what more I could learn.

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  93. Jeremiah Wade

    I like how Tobias was encouraging about not quitting when someone tells you that something can’t be done.

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  94. Bradley

    How long did it take to fix the backfires?

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  95. Bradley

    How long did it take to make the hydrogen house?

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  96. Kevin Crane

    It would be fun to drive a hydrogen car

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  97. Aaron crane

    It would be cool to drive a hydrogen car just to see what it was like

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  98. Trevor Fishack

    one day I wish to own a hydrogen car

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  99. Nakova Crocker

    Hydrogen cars are amazing and I one day hope to own one!

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  100. Brooke Saley

    Hydrogen cars could be clean energy.

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  101. Kyle Saley

    Hydrogen cars are so cool

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  102. Vsevolod Chumachenko

    If the entire world started using hydrogen, will there be less air pollution on earth?

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  103. Adelia

    If I had a Hydrogen car and a Hydrogen house I wonder what it will be like?

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  104. Phillip

    I never knew that people tried to making Hydrogen out of metals and magnets.

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  105. Sasha

    I can’t wait to use Hydrogen in the future, very interesting video.

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  106. Avner

    Wow… Very interesting topic!

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  107. Aurora Rivera

    It’s cool to see how hydrogen is part of what makes cars work.

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  108. Emma Losack

    That was really neat to learn about.

    Sorry I missed this one but I will catch up.

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  109. Lamar Sherif

    I found this really interesting and I think this is really helpful!

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  110. Harleigh D

    this was a really cool episode

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  111. Easton Shaffner

    I am so excited to see how hydrogen can help us improve things in the future. Also, finding out the hydrogen car happened is pretty awesome.

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  112. Coy Guillory

    I hope one day I can have a hydrogen vehicle.

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  113. annalise

    cool live!

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  114. Mia

    Nice live!!

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  115. Sedae Daniels

    The ventioneers club is cool. I love science projects.

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  116. Dillon Swingle

    I can’t believe Mr. Billings was working on this car as a kid.

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  117. Jasmin Sosa

    always so intresting how this can help us in the future

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  118. Gracelyn Weitz

    The correlation between gluten and wheat was very fascinating.

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  119. Ruth baldwin

    This was an interesting video!

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  120. Elijah Baldwin

    Hydrogen can really help us!

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  121. Libby

    Wow this was a really interesting episode!!

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  122. zane

    There is hydrogen gold, and Acellus gold. There’s no doubt, its on purpose.

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  123. Shannon L Tolbert

    Hydrogen can really help us in the future!!

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  124. Asher Germany

    That’s Right Varvara And an abbreviation for Voltage Current and Resistance is VCR

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  125. Llondon Bates

    Hydrogen is amazing!!

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  126. Abacuc Conejo Arcos

    can you do a airplane with hydrogen?

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  127. Asher P.

    I also would love a Hydrogen car!!

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  128. Asher P.

    Wow! I have been trying to learn how to store Hydrogen for a Fighter Jet!! This was really interesting and very helpful!!

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  129. Arielle

    💕 loved this

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  130. Whitson McDonald

    Hydrogen Gocart!

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  131. Varvara

    Hydrogen can realyy help us in the future!!

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  132. Angelica Carvajal

    Its so awesome how you show hydrogen in such a fun and cool way, very a interesting episode.

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  133. Connor Frothingham

    What makes hydrogen a promising but challenging element in the quest for clean energy?

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  134. no one

    I love 😍 talking about Hydrogen! I really want a hydrogen house 🏡!

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  135. Brinley

    I would love to have the hydrogen car! Sounds amazing

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  136. Aleena morin

    It’s was good I learned about hydrogen and how they can us in cars

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  137. Tyler Whitsel

    Love the hydrogen car

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  138. brinley

    this was amazing

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  139. Llondon Bates

    Very helpful indeed!

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  140. Luke Carlton

    R-51 R-51 R-51 is so funny I love hydrogen

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  141. Joy

    funny

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  142. cartier

    what made them think that hydrogen can run a car and what was his ideas on it

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  143. Caiden Hiner

    It will be interesting to see how hydrogen can help us in the future!

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  144. Callan Hiner

    The hydrogen car is so cool!

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  145. Dezmonae' Wallace

    Mr. Roger what made you keep trying even though the professor said you couldn’t do it?

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  146. Dezmonae' Wallace

    It’s WOW that our Founder and the person who started our Tuition program created the world’s first hydrogen car.

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  147. Rowdi Hanselka

    How long did it take to make the house?

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  148. Luna Selene

    Amazing how R-51 invented a car.

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  149. Bakari Blocton

    Dr. wow made me laugh so hard 😂😂. Awesome science facts I love watching them! Keep up the good work!

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  150. Ava Cleveland

    I Like science it’s so fun science LIVE is so much fun the episode last week was amazing

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  151. Ava Cleveland

    So cool 🤣

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  152. Josiah Alkire

    Acellus Gold and Hydrogen Gold! I thought that was a interesting thought. Acellus Gold……..

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  153. Luis Daniel Prendiz Burgess

    I am so thrilled with the hydrogen car! I seriously want to have one of these cars!

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  154. Ryan Uthlaut

    This was an awesome episode!

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