Posted on 03/11/2017 8:32:11 AM PST by ckilmer
Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have, in just two years, nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential for use in solar fuels. They did so by developing a process that promises to speed the discovery of commercially viable solar fuels that could replace coal, oil, and other fossil fuels.
Solar fuels, a dream of clean-energy research, are created using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide (CO2). Researchers are exploring a range of target fuels, from hydrogen gas to liquid hydrocarbons, and producing any of these fuels involves splitting water.
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Now that’s incredible!
Pfft! Jethro did that on The Beverly Hillbillies.........................
By distilling wine that has been turned from water, the ethanol can be used as fuel
By splitting the hydrogen from water it can then be reacted with the oxygen to produce heat.
The revenge of the internal combustion engine
whoa...and I’m still using these old-timey green pills in the gas tank.
We’ve been splitting H2O into O2 and H on Nuclear submarines.
We pump Mr H out into the sea.
We want O2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ENv7FDB6s
Takes more energy to split water than you get back be the recombination. OK for some niche applications.
We’ve been splitting H2O into O2 and H on Nuclear submarines since the 50s
Nothing is free in nature and science. The energy in petroleum was put there by natural processes. Not the case with water into H and O.
Damn right, that is the rub
And the power to do it came from nukes.
No, water can’t be turned into a fuel.
It takes energy to split water into O and H. The energy you get back when you burn the H is LESS than the energy used to split. No dispute.
Burning H is not “clean”. The energy used to split needs to be taken into account. If the energy comes from the Sun, you need to consider the energy used to make the solar panels.
No free lunch.
Over the past four decades, researchers identified only 16 of these photoanode materials. Now, using a new high-throughput method of identifying new materials, a team of researchers led by Caltech’s John Gregoire and Berkeley Lab’s Jeffrey Neaton and Qimin Yan have found 12 promising new photoanodes.
Until there’s something utilized in the marketplace as a cost-effective alternative to oil and gas, it’s all Kevmo talk to me.
You are mixing up your 60’s tv shows. Jethro used Grannie’s rumatiz’ medicine. Grandpa Munster made fuel out of water for his dragster.
As Moltke points out it takes more power to split it than can be gathered by recombination, but it serves a vital purpose on Nuke subs, O2 and power.
Ol Mr H gets thrown overboard
All that limits the nuke boat is food
Nope, Jethro ‘invented’ a pill that was supposed to turn water into gasoline.
But he put the switch in backwards so they were driving on real gasoline and when he threw the switch the engine died .........
• Peak oil is a lieWith unlimited fossil fuels and no need to stop using them, we ought to move these vanity green projects to the back burner and focus on something that can actually kill all of us: Islam.
• Global warming is a hoax
From Wiki:
Gasoline pills in fiction
The storyline of the 1943 Laurel and Hardy film, Jitterbugs, revolves around a con man (Bob Bailey) selling gas pills during the fuel rationing days of WWII.
In the 1949 motion picture Free For All, Robert Cummings starred as a scientist who claimed to have invented a pill that turned water into gasoline.[6]
The 1940s television/radio show People are Funny performed a stunt in which an unsuspecting crowd at Hollywood and Vine were sold “Atom Pills” at a quarter apiece. A “scientist” claimed that one pill could do the work of a hundred gallons of gasoline. When the stunt was revealed, few of the dozens who had fought to buy the pills came up to get their money back.[7]
In the television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, Jethro Bodine claimed to have devised a water to gasoline pill that ran the Clampetts’ old truck on water.
In an episode of the 1960s American sitcom The Munsters, The Sleeping Cutie, Grandpa invents a gasoline pill.[8]
In the 1960s American Science Fiction television show, “One Step Beyond”, Season 3, Episode 12: Where Are They? Original Air Date—13 December 1960: “ In 1917, a stranger calling himself Charles Elton appears to government officials in Washington, D. C. and demonstrates a pill that costs 2 cents that can turn 10 gallons of water into a fuel that can power an auto engine. After his successful exhibition, the stranger vanishes. The FBI and Secret Service searched for months and could never find him.”[9] Misleadingly, this episode presents the story as factual.
In E.L. Doctorow’s historical novel Ragtime, Henry Ford must deal with a man claiming to have invented a water-to-gasoline pill; possibly a reference to Louis Enricht.
In episode 254 of The Simpsons, “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes,” Homer is trapped on a mysterious island with, among others, a Number 27 who is trapped there because she knows how to turn water into gasoline.
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