Fake plants save planet!
Dec 10, 2008 Uncategorized
OK… Not yet, but here is the latest hopeful invention. Pump in water, add some sunshine, and BLAM! out comes oxygen and hydrogen for your fuel cell.
Daniel Nocera at MIT is touting his synthetic photosynthesis.The only question is whether or not it can be scaled to global production.
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21536/
One of these days someone is going to invent the game changing energy source. One of these fracking days!
December 11th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
My thoughts on energy now tend towards distributed sources… so, solar, hydro, wind, waves, going to even include tech to *reduce* our use of energy here, etc…
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These new ideas of the EV cars and Project Better Place? They have mentioned that the idea of swappable batteries would help to spread out the energy demands of the cars (so, instead of everyone charging at night, the person might put in a fresh battery that had charged during the day with solar power).
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I would like to see our roofs as solar panels. Roofs are just sitting there, day after day, why not use them? Sure, it may not be enough to power your entire house every day, but if it even did *some* that would be great, and it might (in some locales) produce a lot. Yeah, I know that some places get snow, but not all do, so fit what works with the right place
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And pretty much every cell tower could have solar or a wind turbine of some type with it.
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Kinda vaguely related….
Have you seen this?
http://www.goodcleantech.com/2008/05/a_plant_made_out_of_solar_cell_1.php
Cool.
See, I’d like it if when we do start installing these new energy sources, we think a little bit about how they look!
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