Aug
27
Oxygen Splitting Breakthrough for Getting Free Hydrogen
August 27, 2010 | 5 Comments
That headline is accurate if a little bewildering. Splitting water to get hydrogen isn’t hard to do, it can be quite simple, and a little lab experiment on the table will do. But doing it the simple way gets you the combined hydrogen and oxygen gases in one mixture called Oxyhydrogen or Brown’s gas – [...]
Jul
16
Breakthrough Hydrogen Production Powered by Sunlight
July 16, 2010 | 5 Comments
MIT scientists led by the prolific Angela Belcher have developed a system that mimics the oxidation of oxygen of the photosynthetic process in plants by engineering M13, a simple and harmless virus, to help splitting water into its two atomic components freeing hydrogen and oxygen powered by sunlight. The MIT team hopes this is the [...]
May
31
Bacteria to Produce Hydrogen Gas
May 31, 2010 | 5 Comments
Karin Willquist, a doctoral student in Applied Microbiology at Lund University in Sweden will soon be presenting a thesis on the subject of a newly discovered bacterium that produces twice as much hydrogen gas as the bacteria currently used. The results show how, when and why the bacterium can perform its excellent work and increase [...]
May
14
Another Better Electrolysis Catalyst
May 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
Daniel Nocera and his associates at MIT have found yet another formulation, based on inexpensive and widely available materials that can efficiently catalyze the splitting of water molecules using electricity. Nocera is heading towards low volt electrolysis with research that could ultimately form the basis for new storage systems that would allow buildings to be [...]
May
7
A New Electrolysis Catalyst
May 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Berkley Lab at the University of California Berkley has come up with a new catalyst for splitting water. In fairness to readers, there have been other claims from out there that didn’t seem, well, practical. So they’ve been overlooked. But this time the sense of the work seems to make some sense. The oxygen [...]
Apr
20
Hydrogen Production From the Smallest Living Organisms
April 20, 2010 | 4 Comments
An MIT team has found a novel way using a modified virus as a kind of biological scaffold that can assemble the nanoscale components needed to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The virus constructions use the power of sunlight for splitting the water and make the chemical fuels to power their [...]
Mar
30
A Path to the Artificial Leaf
March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment
A new recipe based on the chemistry and biology of natural leaves that could lead to working prototypes of an artificial leaf that capture solar energy and use it efficiently to change water into hydrogen fuel was reported the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society last week. Tongxiang Fan, Ph.D. and colleagues Di [...]
Mar
24
Hydrogen Fuel from Sound
March 24, 2010 | 3 Comments
Sound is energy is motion whether in gasses, fluids or through solid materials it could be something worth pursuit. A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is on it with a new material made from crystals of zinc oxide that, when immersed in water, absorb vibrations and develop areas of strong negative and positive charge. [...]
