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Artificial Leaf can provide energy for your home

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I’ll take one!

The artificial leaf shows particular promise as an inexpensive source of electricity for homes of the poor in developing countries. Our goal is to make each home its own power station,” he said. “One can envision villages in India and Africa not long from now purchasing an affordable basic power system based on this technology.”

This technology, developed by MIT, mimics photosynthesis–to the 10th power–which is how plants turn sunlight and water into energy.

It’s doesn’t actually look at all like a leaf though but it is inexpensive and the technology is stable.

Placed in a single gallon of water in a bright sunlight, the device could produce enough electricity to supply a house in a developing country with electricity for a day, Nocera said. It does so by splitting water into its two components, hydrogen and oxygen.

The hydrogen and oxygen gases would be stored in a fuel cell, which uses those two materials to produce electricity, located either on top of the house or beside it.

Science Daily
Debut of the first pratical ‘artificial leaf’

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Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    The second I can get off the grid for 15k or less and see the graveyard of fossil fuels, I'm there.

  2. Prasad says

    Today morning i red the news about the Artificial Leaf in Eenadu New paper. Indian company Tata & MIT works together to improve the technology it will be very useful to both of our countries and also to the world.

  3. TXsharon says

    I'm with you Anon! I'm working toward getting completely off the grid! If my lifestyle has to change some, I can deal with that.

  4. Anonymous says

    I heard of a new technology while listening to the radio, no kidding, some sort of bacteria, that takes carbon dioxide and makes it into diesel fuel.

    NPR…

    Situation: takes a lot to make a little