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Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:50:50 +0000

[...] of that chart. He’s the guy who’s lab at MIT found a new catalyst that they claim is a game changer when it comes to splitting water to get [...]

By: nzc

nzc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:48:35 +0000

I am sure there’s something to it; I certainly would love to see some improvements in battery technology. But we heard a lot of claims about new batteries at iRobot. and none of them lived up to the claims of their inventors. So I have a bit of a jaundiced eye.

By: Ben Hyde

Ben Hyde — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:16:26 +0000

A bit more info here: http://blogs.nature.com/thescepticalchymist/2008/08/acs_philadelphia_2008_big_talk.html

By: nzc

nzc — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:00:59 +0000

My understanding affter digging into the chemistry of electrolysis of water is, if you do things the naive way, you are getting mostly H2 plus OH complexed with the metal in whatever salt yer using to make the water more conductive.
This causes two obvius problems – need for external oxygen for the reforming step and the water in the lysis cell ends up very basic.
This disovery keeps the cycle closed and neutral, and this should make it simpler to build closed loop storage devices, AKA batteries with one hopes highenergy density.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:07:56 +0000

Ah, the keys jumped around on that one, sorry. It said “I like subplots. Write on!”

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:06:52 +0000

I lik Write on!e subplots.