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Friday, August 2, 2013

Have we found the 'holy grail' in cutting emissions? Power plant claims to produce hydrogen by splitting water with sunlight

Have we found the 'holy grail' in cutting emissions? Power plant claims to produce hydrogen by splitting water with sunlight | Mail Online: "Scientists believe they have achieved the ‘holy grail’ of the green economy by designing a hydrogen production plant that can split water with sunlight.

A concept design of a hydrogen production plant

The University of Colorado at Boulder envisages an array of mirrors that would focus sunlight onto a central tower several hundred feet tall. The tower would heat up to around 1,350 °C - enough to liberate hydrogen from steam with the help of a metal oxide compound."

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