Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
"We have a plan in place to improve the
efficiency to what we have and at the present the system works with an
applied potential. We want to remove that applied potential and replace
it with a light absorbing material. It will be a bit like plants which
use chlorophyll. We'll use a chlorophyll like molecule to drive the
whole reaction. Once you do that then you don't need any potential, all
you need is sunlight and water to generate Oxygen and Hydrogen ions and
electrons, which are combined into Hydrogen gas.
"To be realistic you need a 15 year time frame before something can actually make it into the commercial process."
Professor Spiccia said the efficiency of the system needed to be
improved, but this breakthrough had huge potential. "We need to
continue to learn from nature so that we can better master this
process."
"Hydrogen has long been considered the ideal clean green fuel,
energy-rich and carbon-neutral. The production of hydrogen using
nothing but water and sunlight offers the possibility of an abundant,
renewable, green source of energy for the future for communities across
the world."
The research is published this month in the scientific journal Angewandte Chemie, International Edition.
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