WOW, WOW, WOW!
Wow, it really is here! Professor Daniel Nocera of MIT has announced he has succeeded in producing an efficient, low cost, artificial leaf. What's that got to do with energy you ask? It's called a leaf because it mimics a leaf's photosynthesis process. It splits ordinary water into hydrogen and oxygen, which is then used to charge a fuel cell. Nocera claims one of these playing card sized solar cells can operate a house on 1 gallon of water a day. (Assuming it's a sunny day, I guess :-)
I honestly thought this was an April Fools Day joke when I first read it, but the press release was 3/28.
Then I did the research and it's no joke. A large Indian multi-national corporation, Tata Group, has licensed the patent already. They say they'll have a refrigerator sized power plant by next year.
This is the biggest advance in practical science since the invention of the transistor. This truly has the capability of removing the world's dependence on oil, and, it's an all natural process, no pollution. And unlike a lot of other new technologies, this is supposed to be easily affordable.
Now if the physicists would just hurry up with my "beam me up Scotty" beam :-)
Dumb Farmer
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