For solar to become a primary source of electricity, vast amounts of affordable storage will be needed. And today’s options for storing electricity just aren’t practical on a large enough scale.
Enter MIT chemist Daniel Nocera, who has mimicked the step in photosynthesis in which green plants split water into hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight and an inexpensive liquid catalyst. read article in Technology Review
This technology has been around for almost 5 decades, with open-source plans freely available on the internet since 2002. And last year, a startup (as well as a big player) has been trying to capitalize on the concept. Production of this gas from ordinary water -a.k.a. Brown’s Gas, HHO or oxy-hydrogen gas- was optimized by the tuned-frequency electrolytic stumbler Bob Boyce, stating, “I discovered that with the right frequencies, I was able to generate monoatomic hydrogen and oxygen, which when recombined, produces about 4 times the energy output of normal diatomic hydrogen and oxygen molecules since the process of combustion does not have to break apart the molecules first before recombining into water vapor.” Electrolysis is of course nothing new, but being able to break water molecules apart into monoatomic constituents for 1/9th the energy of conventional electrolysis, is. Bob Boyce continues, “The only drawback was storage at pressure causes the monoatoms to start joining into diatomic pairs, and the mixture weakens, so it must be produced on-demand and consumed right away.” This issue is no problem if you have the HHO generator at the point of use.
And another benefit of using tunable harmonics combined with electrical current in water, is that any number of impurities can be easily separated in a matter of minutes, or likewise, destroy harmful water-containing pathogens in hours.
P.S. Have you heard of the “Joe Cell” for adding onto automobiles? Bunk or Believable?
Researchers have designed a microbial electrolysis cell in which bacteria
breaks up acetic acid (a product of plant waste fermentation) to produce
hydrogen gas with a very small electric input from an outside source.
Hydrogen can then be used for fuel cells.
Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation
from NPR’s 11/16/07 Science Friday
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