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The new catalyst works at room temperature, in neutral pH
water, and it's easy to set up, Nocera said. "That's why I know this is
going to work. It's so easy to implement," he said.
Sunlight has the greatest potential of any power
source to solve the world's energy problems, said Nocera. In one hour,
enough sunlight strikes the Earth to provide the entire planet's energy
needs for one year.
Nocera and Kanan's discovery has won praise from their peers in the global scientific community.
James Barber, a leader in the study of photosynthesis, called the
discovery by Nocera and Kanan a "giant leap" toward generating clean,
carbon-free energy on a massive scale.
"This is a major discovery with enormous implications for the future
prosperity of humankind," said Barber, the Ernst Chain Professor of
Biochemistry at Imperial College London. "The importance of their
discovery cannot be overstated since it opens up the door for
developing new technologies for energy production thus reducing our
dependence for fossil fuels and addressing the global climate change
problem."
More engineering work needs to be done to integrate the new scientific
discovery into existing photovoltaic systems, but Nocera said he is
confident that such systems will become a reality.
"This is just the beginning," said Nocera, principal investigator for
the Solar Revolution Project funded by the Chesonis Family Foundation
and co-Director of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center. "The scientific
community is really going to run with this."
Nocera hopes that within 10 years, homeowners will be able to power
their homes in daylight through photovoltaic cells, while using excess
solar energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen to power their own
household fuel cell. Electricity-by-wire from a central source could be
a thing of the past. And by implication, that would mean the end of
fossil fuels.
The MIT release plus a video of Professor Nocera talking about this revolutionary discovery can be found here.
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