Major discovery from MIT primed to unleash solar...
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From the page: ""This is a major discovery with enormous implications for the future prosperity of humankind," said Barber, the Ernst Chain Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College London. "The importance of their discovery cannot be overstated since it opens up the door for developing new technologies for energy production thus reducing our dependence for fossil fuels and addressing the global climate change problem.""
This is great, although a little overstated. We have been using platinum as a catalyst in photovoltaic hydrogen splitting for a while now. The system in the article still has the same major issue - the hydrogen produced will either need to be pressurized (very energy intensive) or used with low pressure fuel cells, which still need a lot of development. The Schatz Energy Research Center has done a lot of work on low pressure hydrogen fuel cells, with the confidence that low energy hydrolysis would eventually be doable.
Never the less... awesome work!
