Energy from Sunlight

Daniel Nocera of MIT has developed a new method of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, by studying photosynthesis in plants.
The technique could yield remarkable new ways to power the planet.

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Science & Technology

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• photosynthesis
• nocera
• mit
• hydrogen
• sunlight
• solar
• solar power
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[yoganb7]

@WCSally No because when you recombine it again in a fuel cell it produces water as an emission (along with energy). Imagine it as part of the water cycle, but just a cycle we are creating for the first time.

[bueschu]

@awo42555 Bullshit, pal. And of course you don't have any kind of scientific proof for your argument.

[awo42555]

every plant produce day and night only CO2 and no O2!

[WCSally]

@zstxkn You think it is not a decent question ?? ... the amount of petrol we consume is the amount of water which flows over Niagara Falls in over a quarter of an hour ... which is a huge volume of fluids! .. The current system burning water also makes water, but no one has ever said how much water is given off by the use of water to power a car.

Japan has made them, but I don't know if they would even license one over here.

[zstxkn]

@WCSally Please educate yourself

[WCSally]

Would this deplete the world's supply of water?

[meesterJos]

Nocera and his group should hook up with Jeremy Rifkin, tháts the one guy they need to get onboard to get governments ready for the Hydrogen Economy, and even better, the total disconnection from centralized energy, in other words: Real power to the people. If they do not want civil unrest, give the people what they want, and I am pretty sure even the welthiest and most powerful people would never wish to return to this age again! #thezeitgeistmovement

[DhrTressie]

@prodiddler Pretty basic chemistry, you say? Hmm...I sort of thought that we were still pretty much stabbing in the dark with catalysis, and currently relying on uninformed brute-force combinatrix to make only modest progress. Coming to a better understanding of just what is really going on here might not be quite as 'basic' as it may at first superficially appear.

[DhrTressie]

Okay, split water if you must. Be aware though, that any Hydrogen gas you may allow to escape into the atmosphere will be lost to this planet - for ever.

[BeondaPale]

Daniel Nocera and Matthew Kanan are now my personal heroes!!