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Alok Jha of The Guardian reports on a Cheap way to ‘split water’ that could lead to an abundant clean fuel. “Daniel Nocera, a chemist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has developed a catalyst made from cobalt and phosphorus that can split water at room temperature, a technique he describes in the journal Science.”
The technique, which mimics the way photosynthesis works in plants, also provides a highly efficient way to store energy, potentially paving the way to making solar power more economically viable.
Hydrogen is a clean, energy-rich fuel that many experts believe could become important as nations attempt to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The gas can be produced by splitting water but current techniques are expensive, use harsh chemicals and need carefully controlled environments in which to operate.
Over at Dailky Kos, Litho gives more details in Solar Energy: MIT announces major breakthrough.
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Huricanes can actually be beneficial. From the Great Beyond at Nature, Hurricane keeps dead zone small. “The huge ‘dead zone’ of oxygen-poor water in the Gulf of Mexico failed to reach record size this year.” Because, “Hurricane Dolly stirred the dead zone like a big pot of soup, aerating water that would otherwise have been oxygenless. Thus by the time scientists finished measuring it, the zone was smaller than predicted. It should shrink further in the fall, with cooler weather, fewer algae and more storms mixing the waters.”
More evidence of self-repair from the Earth’s natural systems?
Four at Four continues with a couple stories about climate change, trolls on the net, and a troll running for the president.
Now, am I surprised that the Rich White Boyz Hater Club are pissing their depends and whipping eachother into an ibogene frenzy imagining monsters lurking in low riders waiting to rape their womens and see bling trails pulsing like photon ray guns that murder white babies in vitro?
