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http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html
Can someone explain using short words only, Is this a good thing?
Can someone explain using short words only, Is this a good thing?
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it's in me shed, mate. -
yes.good.words short enough ?Non intercooled nothing. -
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They're just merging technologies, nothing more.
When someone finds a solar conversion unit that ain't complete and utter expensive crap like PV's, then it might be good news. Judging by the above, their 'revolutionary idea' is a fancy battery, nothing more. It does sod all to actually improve solar energy technology as such.The key component in Nocera and Kanan's new process is a new catalyst that produces oxygen gas from water; another catalyst produces valuable hydrogen gas. The new catalyst consists of cobalt metal, phosphate and an electrode, placed in water. When electricity -- whether from a photovoltaic cell, a wind turbine or any other source -- runs through the electrode, the cobalt and phosphate form a thin film on the electrode, and oxygen gas is produced.Last edited by MattF; 2 August 2008, 21:30.Comment
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how easy is it to seperate hydrogen and oxygen? and whats to stop them combusting and turning back into water immediately? wont you get a chain reaction if they are in a sealed unit?
what would be ideal is the waste product from a hydrogen fuel engine (water vapour) to be re-entered into another system to seperate H and O so that this can then be re-entered into then engine... wont happen though..
but if it did then you could have completely sealed system. no emmisions, not even water. except when you washed the windscreen.Oh Nana, what's my name?Comment
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Nocera hopes that within 10 years, homeowners will be able to power their homes in daylight through photovoltaic cells, while using excess solar energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen to power their own household fuel cell. Electricity-by-wire from a central source could be a thing of the past.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AAAAAAAAAAA
The biggest corporations in the world (Exxon, BP, etc) will ensure that none of this will be happening anytime soon.
10 years indeed.Another member of the 'A' teamComment
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