Comments on: Solar Energy Breakthrough: Goal of MIT Team

By: russ

russ — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:18:07 +0000

I just love it! How the groupies go WoW! Wow! to a press release from a chatting about nothing new except blather!

Using electricity to split water – wherever it comes from is not new – storing the H2 in cylinders is new – they mention they need a new technology I guess.

Have they actually done anything yet? The article does not indicate so.

The three liters of water thing is garbage until someone actually accomplishes it – not just chatters about it.

By: russ

russ — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:18:00 +0000

I just love it! How the groupies go WoW! Wow! to a press release from a chatting about nothing new except blather!

Using electricity to split water – wherever it comes from is not new – storing the H2 in cylinders is new – they mention they need a new technology I guess.

Have they actually done anything yet? The article does not indicate so.

The three liters of water thing is garbage until someone actually accomplishes it – not just chatters about it.

By: Donna Rennemo

Donna Rennemo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:25:30 +0000

The largest challenge in alternative energy markets has been cost models. To offer a solution to utilizing renewable sources in a cost effective manner for hydrogen production, would be an enormous step forward to enabling the market pull that is required to make the cost models make sense. Very exciting to see this progress being made by the MIT T

By: Donna Rennemo

Donna Rennemo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:25:00 +0000

By: Yolanda Arellano

Yolanda Arellano — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:24:13 +0000

Will keep in mind for investment …. $$$$

By: Yolanda Arellano

Yolanda Arellano — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:24:00 +0000

Will keep in mind for investment …. $$$$

By: ed

ed — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:55:13 +0000

it can be done if the oil people didn’t fight against it.so they can sell more gas

By: ed

ed — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:55:00 +0000

it can be done if the oil people didn’t fight against it.so they can sell more gas

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:45:51 +0000

The rate of change in the Solar Industry is happening so fast! Let’s hope that these technologies are fully realized and put to practice. Although, I am confident they will.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:45:00 +0000

The rate of change in the Solar Industry is happening so fast! Let’s hope that these technologies are fully realized and put to practice. Although, I am confident they will.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:09:04 +0000

Urine would be ok but then you have to get rid of the remaining salts and nitrogen will need to be separated from your hydrogen/oxygen stream.

If you could have a dialysis system of some sort to purify the water from urine first then that would be cool. Good thought…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Urine would be ok but then you have to get rid of the remaining salts and nitrogen will need to be separated from your hydrogen/oxygen stream.

If you could have a dialysis system of some sort to purify the water from urine first then that would be cool. Good thought…

By: MD

MD — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:31:41 +0000

This would probably work better with urine instead of straight water, plenty of Hydrogen in urine.

Have one toilet in the house for peeing only, that would be the energy feedstock.

By: MD

MD — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:31:00 +0000

This would probably work better with urine instead of straight water, plenty of Hydrogen in urine.

Have one toilet in the house for peeing only, that would be the energy feedstock.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:19:30 +0000

Better title:

“Energy Storage Breakthrough: Goal of MIT Team”

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:19:00 +0000

Better title:

“Energy Storage Breakthrough: Goal of MIT Team”

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:42:27 +0000

I love the starting from a blank slate.

Henry Ford is famous for demanding an 8 cylinder engine. His engineers said it couldn’t be done. He then hired a new group of people who were not engineers to design the engine. This new group started from a clean slate, they didn’t even fully understand how existing engines worked. But, they found a way using a V shaped engine design. The rest is history.

Hopefully this will be much like the story of the V8 engine (only this time using cleaner technology).

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:42:00 +0000

I love the starting from a blank slate.

Hopefully this will be much like the story of the V8 engine (only this time using cleaner technology).

By: russ

russ — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:27:52 +0000

Went to the CNET article also.

Right now it is so much talk – probably mixed with requests for investment/funding.

If it is so easy it will have many applications where Hydrogen is produced today in the inefficient reforming operations. Many plants would love to have it. An Oxygen plant producing argon requires H2 for argon purification for example.

Hydrogen storage will not be so easy as just having a tank in the basement – hydrogen is very explosive if not handled correctly. Static electricity can cause a BIG problem. Commercial plants have little problem as the workers learn the culture. At home?

Love to see it happen but these guys seem to glib – quick with all the answers.

By: russ

russ — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:27:00 +0000

Went to the CNET article also.

Right now it is so much talk – probably mixed with requests for investment/funding.

Love to see it happen but these guys seem to glib – quick with all the answers.