'Growing' Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight
New, green energy production method wins grant money
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has recently announced that it will award $1.7 million in grant money to the University of Rochester, to support new, alternative, hydrogen-production methods. The university's approach relies on using artificial photosynthesis and carbon nanotubes to get the job done, and this daring initiative is what caught the eye of the DOE in the first place.
Chemistry Team Seeks to Use Artificial Photosynthesis and Nanotubes to Generate Hydrogen Fuel with Sunlight
"Everybody talks about using hydrogen as a super-green fuel, but actually generating that fuel without using some other non-green energy in the process is not easy," says Kara Bren, professor in the Department of Chemistry. "People have used sunlight to derive hydrogen from water before, but the trick is making the whole process efficient enough to be useful."
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