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The technology is a "turbo-powered" version of photosynthesis, the natural process by which plants creates energy from sunlight, but uses electricity to spark the reaction.
Rather than producing carbohydrates, the end product is fuel which could be used in petrol engines to power cars and even aeroplanes, researchers said.
The Glasgow University scientists running the project expect to have fine-tuned the method within two years, and to have built a working model within five.
If used on a mass scale, the technology could supply a large quantity of the world's fuel needs and be used instead of oil when stock starts to run out, they said.
Originally posted by SeekerLou
reply to post by LonelyGuy
Yeah lol.
I can see the whole world changing.
Forget the gas guzzlers, etc.
Let's just hope nothing happens to prevent this from coming to fruition.
Remember Tesla and his ideas...
The artificial leaf — a silicon solar cell with different catalytic materials bonded onto its two sides — needs no external wires or control circuits to operate. Simply placed in a container of water and exposed to sunlight, it quickly begins to generate streams of bubbles: oxygen bubbles from one side and hydrogen bubbles from the other. If placed in a container that has a barrier to separate the two sides, the two streams of bubbles can be collected and stored, and used later to deliver power: for example, by feeding them into a fuel cell that combines them once again into water while delivering an electric current.
Originally posted by SeekerLou
reply to post by mossme89
The motivating factor would be money, I'd assume.
. I'd share with the world too and help ASAP but the motivation factor for them must be otherwise.
If only more people were like you and me.
I'd give it away free too if I could!
-With ya on this, moss!
Originally posted by OccamsRazor04
Originally posted by SeekerLou
reply to post by mossme89
The motivating factor would be money, I'd assume.
. I'd share with the world too and help ASAP but the motivation factor for them must be otherwise.
If only more people were like you and me.
I'd give it away free too if I could!
-With ya on this, moss!
Do you have a job? Do you expect to get paid? Or do you volunteer your services and "hope" people will donate food, clothing, and shelter to you and your family. Suddenly you two seem to be a lot more like them than you thought I bet.