On Jan 10, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Jones Beene wrote:
His Magnetolysis concept removes two levels of intervening
complications into the big picture of splitting water - yet
admittedly - it would not be "simple" to implement, but hey: to
paraphrase Billie Holliday: the difficult is done at once, only the
impossible takes a little while.
Jones
I don't think magnetolysis overcomes the two major problems of
electrolysis - namely the high resistance of the electrolyte and the
potential drops at the electrode interfaces.
Unless it was all just unfounded hype, a better solution (pun) may be
at hand from Daniel G. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy
at MIT. See announcement:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html
http://tinyurl.com/5uu53h
And more recent info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Nocera
http://tinyurl.com/8u7dtp
http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/dgn/www/research/index.html
http://tinyurl.com/9wc8c7
http://peswiki.com/index.php/
Directory:MIT:Daniel_Nocera:Catalytic_Electrolysis
http://tinyurl.com/5jslop
From the above URL: "Inspired by the photosynthesis performed by
plants, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) have combined a liquid catalyst with photovoltaic cells to
achieve a super efficient (nearly 100%) electrolysis."
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/top-10-scientif.html
http://tinyurl.com/7g7b7x
In above article Nocera designated number 9 of "Top 10 Scientific
Breakthroughs of 2008".
http://www.plentymag.com/blogs/edge/2008/12/
the_years_top_cleantech_breakt.php
http://tinyurl.com/9m46gn
The above titled: "The year's top cleantech breakthrough?"
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/discover-top100-1216.html
http://tinyurl.com/8ggfn2
The above ranks Nocera number 21: "Coming in at #21 is Professor
Daniel Nocera's discovery of a simple, inexpensive method to split
water into hydrogen and oxygen, which can be stored to power a fuel
cell. The process, reported in Science in August, could lead to a
practical way to store solar energy for use when the sun is not
shining."
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
