Posted by
Average Voter on Saturday, August 02, 2008 12:37:25 PM
There is great news that applies to the world of clean energy coming out of the MIT labratories, and
this article explains some of them.
Here is one of them:
Water is H2O—two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom—and scientists have known for two centuries how to apply a jolt of electricity to split it into hydrogen and oxygen, a process called electrolysis. What Nocera's scheme promises is a way of doing what existing commercial electrolyzers do, but much more simply and efficiently.
"Conceptually, it's the same thing," Nocera says. "But instead of feeding electrons into a hermetically sealed box filled with a concentrated base, we can feed them to an electrode sitting in a simple glass of water, at room temperature and pressure, with neutral pH." That simple setup makes it easy to build, operate and maintain.
This is what we need; ways in which to create clean energy cheaper and more effeciently. That has been the problem with hydrogen and solar energies, costs are still too high to be put in mass use. Hopefully it all comes together