Re: [Vo]:Re: Major electrolysis development

[Nick Palmer]

"The hard part of getting water to split is not the hydrogen -- platinum as 
a catalyst works fine for the hydrogen. But platinum works very poorly for 
oxygen, making you use much more energy," said MIT chemistry professor 
Daniel Nocera. "What we have done is made a catalyst work for the oxygen 
part without any extra energy. In fact, with our catalyst almost 100 percent 
of the current used for electrolysis goes into making oxygen and hydrogen."

So how efficient is ordinary "two copper wires in salty water" electrolysis 
at splitting H20 by comparison?