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Hydrogen, is the most abundant material in the universe that we could use to power a bunch of stuff… if only we could produce it cheaply. That’s the problem that an MIT researcher is hoping to solve. Daniel Nocera has a way to break water molecules at room temperature using a catalyst based on Cobalt and Phosphor. Other methods include heating water to 900 degrees which is not always practical… or cheap. On the cost, Nocera says:
I’m using cheap, Earth-abundant materials that you can mass-manufacture. As long as you can charge the surface, you can create the catalyst and it doesn’t get any cheaper than that.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 11:38 pm
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