With one bottle of drinking water and four hours of sunlight, MIT chemist Dan Nocera claims that he can produce 30 KWh of electricity, which is enough to power an entire household in the developing world. With about three gallons of river water, he could satisfy the daily energy needs of a large American home. The key to these claims is a new, affordable catalyst that uses solar electricity to split water and generate hydrogen.
http://www.physorg.com/news187031401.html
Solar is so....2010.
And guess who gets to subsidize the rich guy's install. Now that I think about it, I guess, nobody. Since our economy has finally fully reached fictitious status, it's truly Alice meets wonderland....
Tim Burton & Johnny Depp style.
TS
Good video, but bloody hell his voice sounds rough !
Suppose this is a real thing, and able to make us energy-independant, from just our daily shot of sunlight. Then, giving $4mln is a very good muffler. Or a feel-good story for the news.
I bet H2O subsedy funds are pre-determined for the next decades, and obviously left to a minimum.
No free energy, ever, at least not till the last drop of oil has been sold for a trillion $.
Quote from: infringer on March 08, 2010, 09:15:51 PM
With one bottle of A and four hours of sunlight, MIT chemist Dan Nocera claims that he can produce 30 KWh of electricity, which is enough to power an entire household in the developing world. With about three gallons of river water, he could satisfy the daily energy needs of a large American home. The key to these claims is a new, affordable catalyst that uses solar electricity to split water and generate hydrogen.
http://www.physorg.com/news187031401.html
I believe his technology will turn out to be FLEET (Forever Leadout Electromagnetic Energy Transformer) or similar to the late Stan Meyer technology.
I've done some research on this previously. No theories needed, just good chemistry.
The new improvement is one electrode is an indium tin oxide coating on glass, plastic, etc. Cobalt oxide (1 part) and Potassium phosphate (2 parts) in solution. The Cobalt Phosphate plates, precipitates and continuously interacts on the electrode to easily release the oxygen.
The other electrode is a regular platinum coated electrode to release the hydrogen as usual.
Regards, Larry
More detailed talk, Dan Nocera: Personalized Energy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTtmU2lD97o&feature=related
Sounds like promising stuff!