A U.S. scientist has developed a new way of powering fuel cells that could make it practical for home owners to store solar energy and produce electricity to run lights and appliances at night.
A new catalyst produces the oxygen and hydrogen that fuel cells use to generate electricity, while using far less energy than current methods. With this catalyst, users could rely on electricity produced by photovoltaic solar cells to power the process that produces the fuel, said the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who developed the new material…
Most U.S. homes with solar panels feed electricity into the power grid during the day, but have to draw back from the grid at night. Nocera said his development would allow homeowners to bank solar energy as hydrogen and oxygen, which a fuel cell could use to produce electricity when the sun was not shining…
Nocera’s catalyst is made from cobalt, phosphate and an electrode that produces oxygen from water by using 90 percent less electricity than current methods, which use the costly metal platinum…
“It’s cheap, it’s efficient, it’s highly manufacturable, it’s incredibly tolerant of impurity and it’s from earth-abundant stuff,” Nocera explained.
He’s not at the pilot project stage, yet. Fortunately, VC funding for projects like this is becoming readily available.
…so…hydrogen generators for combustion cars that don’t destroy themselves as fast?
YAY!
Letter to MA Governor Deval Patrick:
Hello again! Just wanted to let you know that Novotech of Acton, Massachusetts has won a US Patent for a revolutionary solar thermal power system breakthrough. We know your Administration is always looking for Massachusetts companies who are making headway and Novotech is Exceptional!
S.u.c.c.e.s.s.!
As you might have heard from our working colleagues at MIT this Solar Thermal Road Power System uses existing roads and parking lot asphalt to gather radiant heat and transfer it to power transformers that directly create electric power! We call it …
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And the unique property of Efficiency is that it actually cools as it works!
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We are developing a working model of this patented process in Charlestown, MA and Holyoke, MA to be online generating very shortly. Novotech’s President & CEO Mike Huien is the US Patent holder and is projecting a $120 Million industry in the first two years of development adding more than 17,000 jobs! ROI is less than one-year!!
Here is a link to a 20-second slideshow. http://novotech.net/NovotechSlideshow.html
If you have any questions please let me know.
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Sincerely,
Tony
Don’t know how many will see this.
Turns out this article is full of crap!
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4378#more