Faces of the Recovery Act: Sun Catalytix

BOSTON- At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dan Nocera talks about Sun Catalytix, the next generation of solar energy, and ARPA-E funding through the Recovery Act.

To learn about more ARPA-E projects through the Recovery Act:
http://arpa-e.energy.gov/FundedProjec...

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[theshadowkidd]

He sounds exactly like Fozzie Bear

[BIGBOY2TON]

Free/Cheap Energy 4 everyone!

Yay!

It's a good time to be alive!

[mikeyjaerd]

This is going to be another suppressed invention, it's not profitable for electric companies. We care more about ourselves than this planet, even if we say otherwise. But for Earth's sake, i really hope this works, i pray it does.

[nxadmon]

seems like a ARPA-E commercial. I would like to know more about the science.

[ehmfrancisco]

Sun Catalytix aims to generate an inexpensive renewable energy supply from sunlight and water. Let us support it!

[John Eden]

Political Ad for four more years, wake up America!

[QuantumAnomaly]

Leave it to a YouTube commenter to reduce even the most intelligently discussed social / environmental issues into mindless drivel.

[Jon Weiss]

Get ready for the new Obama "water tax", that will be imposed to make up for the cash they lose in gas & coal taxes.

[Jon Weiss]

If everyone on the planet were to go to "green" independent sources for energy, the government will be there with its hand out to take a tax on some part of it.

[Jon Weiss]

If the government is so much behind this technology, why is it that local utilities are successfully filing suits to block home owners from installing solar panels and other technologies? This is just like the government charade of pushing alternate energy transportation and touting it as "Free energy" then imposing a per mile tax on cars to make up for what they are losing in gas taxes.

[Nat Pittman]

The system that he is describing doesn't really consume any water at all, it is an almost completely closed loop. The water is split into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity, the hydrogen and oxygen are used in a fuel cell to produce electricity, and the output of the fuel cell (water) goes back into the tank to be split again.