[TheAntiDoomer]

Artificial photosynthetic process could run your house on a bottle of water

http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/artifici ... -of-water/

After receiving $400 million in funding, ARPA-E’s first conference witnessed MIT chemist Dan Nocera proving that artificial photosynthesis could power an entire household using just sunlight and a bottle of water. Nocera has developed a special catalyst that splits water into its constituents that is hydrogen and oxygen, which can provide enough energy to run a house.

[Bas]

what's that odour? it smells like.......like.........I know what it is! it's horse manure!


AD, I do hope that you realize by posting this you also discredit things you post that might have a little more merit. Maybe you can come up with another (Better) source?

EDIT: maybe something like this?

(this article is more than a year and a half old, so you should wonder why we haven't heard more about it by now)

[SeaGypsy]

Just did a bit of a dig. Sun Catalytix is the company. Looks like they may have a fledgling idea, but the brakes slammed on for me when I read that cobalt is the key ingredient in the catalyst they are developing. They are making out cobalt is common when in fact it is far from it. I wonder if this has anything to do with the UN backed war over the worlds biggest cobalt fields in eastern Congo which just started last weekend?
I don't buy anything online and I don't have a science degree; thus my research capability isn't enough to make a proper appraisal.
Another alarm went off when on the 1st page on the link provided they can't work out the difference between $4 million and $400 million? Which was it?

[mos6507]

Just did a bit of a dig. Sun Catalytix is the company. Looks like they may have a fledgling idea, but the brakes slammed on for me when I read that cobalt is the key ingredient in the catalyst they are developing. They are making out cobalt is common when in fact it is far from it. I wonder if this has anything to do with the UN backed war over the worlds biggest cobalt fields in eastern Congo which just started last weekend?
I don't buy anything online and I don't have a science degree; thus my research capability isn't enough to make a proper appraisal.
Another alarm went off when on the 1st page on the link provided they can't work out the difference between $4 million and $400 million? Which was it?

if cobalt is so rare you wouldn't see them in commodity uses like laptop batteries. I don't think that's the issue, or at least it wouldn't be for some time (like the rare elements in LCD panels). The issue is the inefficiency of this process.

[kpeavey]

This is not and example of science saving the day. This is grasping at straws.

[gnm]

Anyone read the article? It's laughable. Use MASSIVE EXPENSIVE SOLAR PV array to inefficiently produce hydrogen which I may add has all the usual issues with storage, transport etc.



-G