{"id":402041,"date":"2010-03-08T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/new-technology-generates-hydrogen-efficiently-from-water-using-sunlight\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T06:00:34","slug":"new-technology-generates-hydrogen-efficiently-from-water-using-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/402041","title":{"rendered":"New technology generates hydrogen efficiently from water using sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/08\/solar-hydrogen-production_AVIlv_69.jpg\" alt=\"solar hydrogen production\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Generating hydrogen from water using sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uea.ac.uk\/\">University of East Anglia<\/a> have reported a breakthrough in hydrogen generation from water, with a new system that achieves 60 percent efficiency for a process in which hydrogen is produced from water by the photons striking a specially designed electrode. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While there is no shortage of processes to generate hydrogen from water, most of them rely on photovoltaic cells for electricity, making the entire process highly inefficient. A breakthrough in the generation of hydrogen using solar power could tip the balance in favor of hydrogen fuel cell technologies. Now researchers have come up with a process that is being reported to be about 60 percent efficient, or three times as efficient as conventional means.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is based on the use of a nanophotocathode, which is a gold electrode coated with nanoclusters of indium phosphide. This material absorbs incoming photons of light. The electrons liberated are passed onto an iron-sulfur complex which acts a matchmaker between the negatively charged electron and a hydrogen proton in the surrounding water molecules producing hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/03\/breakthrough-producing-hydrogen-water-sunlight.php\">Treehugger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Generating hydrogen from water using sunlight. Researchers at the University of East Anglia have reported a breakthrough in hydrogen generation from water, with a new system that achieves 60 percent efficiency for a process in which hydrogen is produced from water by the photons striking a specially designed electrode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}