"Artificial Leaf" splits water into H2 and O2 easily and cheaply

http://us.cnn.com/2014/04/28/tech/innovation/the-artificial-leaf-power-solar-electricity/index.html

by swombat • 12 years ago

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jgoewert• 12 years ago

Ugh.. one of his arguements for not selling this tech right now seems flawed.

-- "Hydrogen is the most powerful fuel, but it's a gas. If I gave you hydrogen right now you wouldn't know what to do with it."

-- For now, he says, he'll have to work on convincing people to find ways to make hydrogen "fuel cell" technology easy-to-use.

How about a system right there and then to burn the hydrogen as it is being created and store it in a battery. Why does this need to be any different than using solar cells to store electricity in deep cycle batteries in the home?

Also, saying "I'm not releasing a way to make cheap hydrogen until people have ways to use it" seems very self defeating. This is like saying, I'm not giving you a computer until you can write a bunch of programs to run on it.

It is his invention and he can do whatever he can to monetize it. I was just thinking that an altruistic release of this would change the world overnight.

"Artificial Leaf" splits water into H2 and O2 easily and cheaply

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