I'd been thinking about coming up with some way to mimick the process of photosynthensis since that's how plants do some things we would really like to do: convert solar energy into hydrogen and/or high-energy electrons, split water, and sequester carbon for example. Coming up with synthetic...
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Space age technology at work in the hydrogen economy. This approach sounds more feasible in the short term than PEMFCs.
In 8th grade science class our teacher demonstrated the combustion of soap bubbles filled with hydrogen and then bubbles filled with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. To our young eyes and ears, it appeared that mixing the reactants yielded at least an order of magnitude more power than just...