UCLA researchers have designed a device that can use solar energy to inexpensively and efficiently create and store energy, which could be used to power electronic devices, and to create hydrogen fuel for eco-friendly cars.
Richard Kaner and Maher El-Kady are heading this new inovation.
Combining a supercapacitor and the water-splitting technology into a single unit, is an advance similar to the first time a phone, web browser and camera were combined on a smartphone.
"Hydrogen is a great fuel for vehicles: It is the cleanest fuel known, it's cheap and it puts no pollutants into the air -- just water," said Richard Kaner, the study's senior author and a UCLA distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and of materials science and engineering. "And this could dramatically lower the cost of hydrogen cars."
The innovation, portrayed in a paper in the diary Energy Storage Materials, could be particularly helpful in rural regions, or to military units serving in remote areas.
"Individuals require fuel to run their vehicles and power to run their gadgets," Kaner said. "Presently you can make both power and fuel with a solitary gadget."
It could likewise be a piece of an answer for substantial urban communities that need approaches to store surplus power from their electrical networks.
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originate, exciting possibilities. I am still waiting to buy my used Tesla. Maybe I should wait for the first vehicle with this dual energy system instead. Upvoted and resteemed.
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With renewable sources of energy, we would eventually stop needing oil, which is destroying our environment. Like you said, its very useful to use hydrogen as a carrier of energy, as it doesn't pollute the environment.
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Thank you for the post @originate! I didn't catch what the new development was. Is it the method of capturing and storing solar energy, or is it the combination of the supercapacitor with the water-splitter?
As in the single unit captures sunlight, uses it to split water and stores the remaining energy and the produced hydrogen?
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i'm down for anything that does not add to killing the planet.
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nice post.
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I've never been too sure about hydrogen fuel cells as an energy source. It sounds like a really inefficient process to first spend energy to split water, use specialized containment for the diffused hydrogen and then have it recombine back into water. From what I've read, the thermodynamics don't add up.
But then again I'm no expert so I can be completely wrong.
Despite my reservations, If this actually works, then it could really change our model of energy production and consumption.
Kudos to the team.
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i have recently noticed that as each day passes, new discoveries are made concerning energy and its generation and very soon, we wouldn't be needing non renewable energy sources anymore
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