Science!
It seems like it has been a long time since I made a post about science, but a team at MIT just dropped some serious scientific thunder.
Their discovery addresses the issue of how do we make hydrogen based fuel cell energy sources efficient enough for practical use. Somehow, by researching photosynthesis, they found an easy way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The joining together, of that easily split hydrogen and oxygen makes energy, which is what happens in a fuel cell. The ultimate goal is that during the day solar panels make energy and split water into H and O, and at night, the H and O recombine in a fuel cell to make more energy. So no matter what, no matter when your house is making energy and it's cheap! If your house has an electric car, which it's likely to in the next 10 years, you'd never need to use carbon based fuels, and that's not only good for the environment but your wallet, and also sticking it to the man.
MIT
Their discovery addresses the issue of how do we make hydrogen based fuel cell energy sources efficient enough for practical use. Somehow, by researching photosynthesis, they found an easy way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The joining together, of that easily split hydrogen and oxygen makes energy, which is what happens in a fuel cell. The ultimate goal is that during the day solar panels make energy and split water into H and O, and at night, the H and O recombine in a fuel cell to make more energy. So no matter what, no matter when your house is making energy and it's cheap! If your house has an electric car, which it's likely to in the next 10 years, you'd never need to use carbon based fuels, and that's not only good for the environment but your wallet, and also sticking it to the man.
MIT
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