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Re: SOLAR ENERGY INTO HYDROGEN FUEL

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/12/15 2:07 PM, Wally W. wrote:
>> Scientists think this is a great idea.
>> Engineers know it is not.
> 
> 
>   Who will prevail?

They accountants, of course, fool.

> SOLAR ENERGY INTO HYDROGEN FUEL
>> http://www.futurity.org/system-turns-solar-energy-hydrogen-fuel-later-use/
>> http://www.futurity.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sun_convert_770.jpg
> 
>> Researchers have built a system that converts the
>> sun?s energy into hydrogen fuel and stores it to
>> use after the sun goes down.
>>
>> ?So called ?solar fuels? like hydrogen offer a
>> solution to how to store energy for nighttime use
>> by taking a cue from natural photosynthesis,?
>> says Tom Meyer, a chemistry professor at the
>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ?Our
>> new findings may provide a last major piece of a
>> puzzle for a new way to store the sun?s energy?it
>> could be a tipping point for a solar energy
>> future.?
>>
>> The new system designed by Meyer and colleagues
>> at UNC and with Greg Parsons? group at North
>> Carolina State University does exactly that. It
>> is known as a dye-sensitized
>> photoelectrosynthesis cell, or DSPEC, and it
>> generates hydrogen fuel by using the sun?s energy
>> to split water into its component parts.
>>
> 
> 
>> After the split, hydrogen is sequestered and
>> stored, while the byproduct, oxygen, is released
>> into the air.
>>
>> ?But splitting water is extremely difficult to
>> do,? says Meyer. ?You need to take four electrons
>> away from two water molecules, transfer them
>> somewhere else, and make hydrogen, and, once you
>> have done that, keep the hydrogen and oxygen
>> separated.
>>
> 
> 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Re: SOLAR ENERGY INTO HYDROGEN FUEL Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 08:00 -0600
  Re: SOLAR ENERGY INTO HYDROGEN FUEL Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2015-11-23 09:05 -0500
  Re: SOLAR ENERGY INTO HYDROGEN FUEL jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-23 19:00 +0000

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