Very very interesting developments surfacing in the hydrogen economy this week, Caltech has developed a new type of solar panel, but instead of generating electricity it generates hydrogen and other useful chemicals or compounds directly from the air. Technically it's a form of synthetic photosynthesis. Basically it takes CO[sub]2[/sub] and other gases from the air, and breaks reduces them to then form more desirable compounds in SolarSynthesis
The Moonshot for Caltech is to produce Aviation Fuel directly from the air, a completely circular process.
At the moment, the lab scale tests have the efficiency at nearly 20%, that is pretty much the same as SolarPV. The SolarSynthesis technology is based on silicon, so the expectation is that it will scale according to SolarPV.
If this is true no wonder Twiggy Forrest got out of Cannon-Brookes sun cable scheme! You can just make hydrogen and ship it via conventional pre-existing means to wherever you need the energy.
Who'd have thunk mimicking nature was a good idea? :o
The Moonshot for Caltech is to produce Aviation Fuel directly from the air, a completely circular process.
At the moment, the lab scale tests have the efficiency at nearly 20%, that is pretty much the same as SolarPV. The SolarSynthesis technology is based on silicon, so the expectation is that it will scale according to SolarPV.
If this is true no wonder Twiggy Forrest got out of Cannon-Brookes sun cable scheme! You can just make hydrogen and ship it via conventional pre-existing means to wherever you need the energy.
Who'd have thunk mimicking nature was a good idea? :o
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