Cheap source of energy: Cell splits water via sunlight to produce hydrogen

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 17 May 2007 10:46:58 GMT  <== Science/Technology ==> 

Tony Fitzpatrick at Physorg.com - Pratim Biswas and his group at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a photocatalytic cell that enables sunlight-powered hydrolysis, splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. They believe it will scale. Yay! Cheap hydrogen for our fuel cells. [skype]

Meanwhile, Jerry Woodall, Charles Allen, and Jeffrey Ziebarth at Purdue have found an aluminum/galium combination that creates hydrogen if you pour water on it. It oxidizes the aluminum, so you need a process to recycle it, but the galium remains unchanged.

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