Solar energy: major discovery

josephpalazzo · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:10 am Post subject: Solar energy: major discovery

Inspired by the photosynthesis performed by plants, Nocera and Matthew Kanan, a postdoctoral fellow in Nocera's lab, have developed an unprecedented process that will allow the sun's energy to be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. Later, the oxygen and hydrogen may be recombined inside a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity to power your house or your electric car, day or night.

Mr_C · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:21 am Post subject:

This could be huge.
_________________
"If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?"
Carl Sagan

The Atheist Forums Rules
Summary: Just play nice, mmkay?

joshuas3521 · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:23 am Post subject:

Maybe the Hydrogen fuel cell is viable Smile

_________________
"What I'm saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job." --Carl Sagan

"In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." --Douglas Adams

In memory of George Carlin. May he rest in peace.

Ignore list:
<empty>

not_a_theist · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject:

I saw this the other day while reading my daily nerd-blogs. Cool stuff.
_________________
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.

coloringzebras · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject:

invest.

Dawkadoodle · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject:

America is leading the Energy wave as of lates.

hillbillyatheist · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

I wonder how long it will take the coal and oil industries to bribe the government to ban this?

eximius · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

Looks promising.
_________________
"One is all for religion until one visits a really religious country. Then, one is all for drains, machinery and a miniumum wage." - Aldous Huxley

"Time is a great teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all its pupils." - Hector Berlioz

Dawkadoodle · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject:

not_a_theist · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject:

Background Video covering the discovery of the new catalyst. Pretty interesting:

http://cenblog.org/2008/08/06/more-video-goodness/
_________________
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.

MockingGods · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject:

gnosis · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject:

I can see one problem with this method: You need water.
Fresh water is actually in somewhat short supply, unless you can perform this method on seawater.

Filtering seawater into fresh water requires a large amount of energy, difficult to offset.
_________________
"Agnostics: Atheists without balls." -Stephen Colbert

MockingGods · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject:

MockingGods · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject:

jaycorath · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject:

	AtheistForums.com Forum Index -> Science General Discussion	All times are GMT - 5 Hours Goto page 1, 2 Next
Page 1 of 2