Synthetic Photosynthesis

[the_dragon_mage]

This was a subject of discussion with a guest lecturer in my Computational Chemistry class last week

Comments

interesting

[atomicstorm]

This is a very interesting discovery... I like it... Thanks for posting it!!!

[tahoe_sushi]

I would be more thinking about its usefulness in a hydrogen powered car where you could just fill it up with water instead.

[the_dragon_mage]

If you make the hydrogen before hand it's more efficient. Hydrogen is lighter and can be compressed where as water would take up a lot of volume and weigh down the car. You would also have to have a sufficient area of solar cells to collect enough sun to split the water at a fast enough speed to supply the engine with enough hydrogen to run. You would also need constant sunlight. It would have the same drawbacks as a solar powered electric car plus some extra.

I wasn't expecting to get a comment on such an old entry, lol. Thanks. :)