9/26/2007

Generate power like photosynthesis

There is another amazing invention which could produced 'fuel' from water, a little bit different with what we had mentioned before in this weblog, saltwater to 'fuel'. In this technology, Martin Demuth (researcher at Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry in Mülheim an der Ruhr) has proposed a class of semiconductors, made of titanium disilicide (TiSi2), which can split water into hydrogen and oxygen and then stores the gases produced. The concept is simple, put water on semiconductor, then beam its directly to solar energy (photon). The hydrogen gases stored thus can be used as a 'fuel'.

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