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‘Major discovery’ storing solar energy

Recently an MIT professor, Daniel Nocera announced a major breakthrough that promises to make the way passable to revolutionize the adaptation of storing solar and wind harnessed energy. The current problem has been that when the sun goes down, or the wind stops blowing, the energy stops. Battery systems are expensive, and only live so long before they need replacing. This new discovery uses non-toxic natural materials to split oxygen and hydrogen from water, at room temperature. These can be stored and recombined in a fuel cell later whenever electricity is needed.

You can hear Daniel Norera discuss this at … MIT TechTV

You can read an article about this work at MIT news.

5 Responses to “‘Major discovery’ storing solar energy”

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  2. Leon Murray:

    solar power would be cheaper it we could just cut down the cost of solar cells~~`

  3. Nathan Lee:

    solar energy will get cheaper in the future and more efficient too’:,

  4. Fire Grate :

    solar power is great because it is a reneweable source of energy and non-polluting too:”~

  5. Breakfast Nook ·:

    solar energy should be the stuff that we should harness instead of those fossil fuels ::

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