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 Unlimited New Energy from Sun
and Water.
A revolutionary new way of harnessing the power of the sun to extract
almost unlimited energy from water will be a reality within seven years.
“It would be the cheapest, cleanest and most abundant energy source
ever developed,” say scientists from Australia’s University of New South
Wales. “The main by-products would be oxygen and water.”
Special titanium oxide ceramics will harvest sunlight and split water
to produce hydrogen fuel. The researchers say it will then be a simple
engineering exercise to make a device with no moving parts to harvest
the energy; and it will give off no greenhouse gases or pollutants.
“This is potentially huge, with a market the size of all the existing
markets for coal, oil and gas combined,” says Professor Janusz Nowotny
who, with Professor Chris Sorrell, is leading a solar hydrogen research
project at the University’s Centre for Materials and Energy Conversion.
The team is thought to be the most advanced in developing the cheap,
light-sensitive materials that will be the basis of the new technology.
Chris Sorrell says Australia is ideally placed to take advantage of
the enormous potential of this new technology: “We’ve abundant sunlight,
huge re-serves of titanium. But this technology could be used anywhere
in the world. It’s been the dream of many people for a long time to
develop it and it’s exciting to know that it is now within such close
reach.”
Although existing hydrogen fuel cell technology is more efficient
than the internal combustion engine and dramatically cuts down vehicle
emissions, currently hydrogen is produced from fossil fuel, so that it
still gives off greenhouse gases. This new process would cut out these
emissions.
In Britain, a team of scientists at Leeds University have developed
an-other process that enables hydrogen to be produced from vegetable
oils, so cars could in future have a tank of sun-flower oil that would
be converted into hydrogen to power the fuel cell motor.
Meanwhile, in Scotland, the world’s first commercial-scale floating
Wave Energy Converter, The Pelamis, has successfully generated its first
electricity for the UK grid.
In the US over 350 bankers and investors met to explore the state of
financing for renewable energy in America. The American Council on
Renewable Energy and Euromoney was completely oversubscribed. “It’s
great to see renewable energy entering the mainstream,” said the
organizers.
FURTHER INFORMATION :
m.omalley@unsw.edu.au
WEB SITE : http://www.oceanpd.com
EMAIL: m.omalley@unsw.edu.au
2nd WEB SITE :
http://www.americanrenewables.org
2nd EMAIL: v.dupont@leeds.ac.uk
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