Do these make more of themselves?
Bear fruit?
What's the point?....
...and how much did this cost?
Not a leaf at all, but an electrolysis device. It doesn’t make glucose. Phooey.
Do you know of any plants that produce free hydrogen as a result of photosynthesis?
That’s the magic of these leaves. If this stuff is really cheap to make, in terms of materials, it would be a great way for 24/7 power, as you could generate a surplus during the day of hydrogen, and run the same fuel cells during the night hours.
Until storage batteries advance far enough, we are basically stuck storing electricity in a different form than electrochemical potential.
Yeah, they didn’t talk about that. Not sure how much the research cost. I’m guessing plants aren’t such a good solution because plants are basically selfish, doing photosynthesis for themselves, not us. So we end up scrounging byproducts, while the plant gets the lion’s share? But again, I’m definitely not a biologist, so what do I know? Secondly, seasonality must be a problem if you want to produce energy on a massive scale in temperate climates.
Damn! I just went “all-in” on algae!
/s, of course