We interviewed a truly original company this week called Plasma Kinetics, run by a husband and wife team, Paul and Stacey Smith, which claims to have developed a unique method for bonding hydrogen both for storage and release within applications, by adsorption onto a Magnesium hydride thin film layer. The idea is not new, and if you look at a variety of published papers on the internet you can see that this has been a topic of fierce debate for well over a decade, with the stumbling blocks usually being the huge amount of energy required to release hydrogen from such an adsorption layer. This is a company founded in 2008, that has had a variety of difficulties bring the…