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Aussie scientist has new way to get hydrogen from sunlight
...Australian scientists predict that a revolutionary new way to harness the power of the sun to extract clean and almost unlimited energy supplies from water will be a reality within seven years. [later in the article this 7 year prediction is hedged] Using special titanium oxide ceramics that harvest sunlight and split water to produce hydrogen fuel, the researchers say it will then be a simple engineering exercise to make an energy-harvesting device with no moving parts and emitting no greenhouse gases or pollutants... I don't know much about ceramic based chemistry but I do know that the US has a very capable high tech ceramic capability. If the Aussies can do it, I think there's a good chance the US could do it also, maybe better.
Posted by: mhw 2004-08-27 |
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