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Scientific Progress
Aug. 1st, 2008 02:32 pmWell, this has some potential!
Stripped of speculations, exaggerations, hyperbole, etc. what the article says is that two MIT researches have come up with an efficient way to catalyze the splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen. This doesn't necessarily accomplish most of the goals that the article mentions, but it certainly does make fuel cells a much more viable form of energy storage. When combined with the new solar concentrators 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for localized solar power.
Edit: I just re-read the article and noticed that it's just a new cheap, nontoxic catalyst for oxygen generation. They're still using platinum for Hydrogen generation, which cuts into how economical this system can be. Still, they're halfway there at least.
Edit²: This article, however, says that the new catalyst is used in the place of platinum. I wonder which one is correct. I heard that this discovery is detailed in the latest issue of Science, I think I'll go see if the library has a copy...
Stripped of speculations, exaggerations, hyperbole, etc. what the article says is that two MIT researches have come up with an efficient way to catalyze the splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen. This doesn't necessarily accomplish most of the goals that the article mentions, but it certainly does make fuel cells a much more viable form of energy storage. When combined with the new solar concentrators 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for localized solar power.
Edit: I just re-read the article and noticed that it's just a new cheap, nontoxic catalyst for oxygen generation. They're still using platinum for Hydrogen generation, which cuts into how economical this system can be. Still, they're halfway there at least.
Edit²: This article, however, says that the new catalyst is used in the place of platinum. I wonder which one is correct. I heard that this discovery is detailed in the latest issue of Science, I think I'll go see if the library has a copy...
