The Answer To the World’s Energy Crisis is Right There in the Sky
Get used to hearing the names Nocera and Kanan. They could become the next Watson and Crick. In the July 31 edition of Science magazine it was revealed that Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT, and Matthew Kanan, a postdoctoral fellow in Nocera’s lab, have created a process that makes it possible to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases, using only the sun’s energy. In the second step of this process the oxygen and hydrogen are recombined inside a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity capable of powering houses and cars.
Exactly how this gets done is a little beyond me. I’m just a farmer after all. But for those interested in reading more about this amazing discovery you should check out this article from MIT’s website.
Unfortunately, this technology is still a few years away from actually getting implemented, which, I guess, explains why it’s not on the front page of every newspaper in the country. Meanwhile, the demand to open up our country’s coasts to offshore drilling continues by those too short-sighted to realize the folly of such a plan, further proof that we are the dumbest animal on the planet. The answer to the world’s energy problem was right there in the sky this whole time, but none of us had the brains or vision to simply look up.
Tags: offshore drilling, solar power