08-03-2008, 11:49 AM
<!--emo&:clapping--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clap.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='clap.gif' /><!--endemo--> "If you can only have energy when the sun is shining, you're in deep trouble. And that's why, in my opinion, photovoltaics haven't penetrated the market," Daniel Nocera, an MIT professor of energy, said in an interview at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, office. "If I could provide a storage mechanism, then I make energy 24/7 and then we can start talking about solar."
Solar has been growing as a power source in the US. But it is still a tiny power source, producing enough energy to meet the needs of about 600,000 typical homes, and only while the sun is shining.
Nocera said his development would allow people to bank solar energy as hydrogen and oxygen, which a fuel cell could use to produce energy when the sun was not shining.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthS...how/3316499.cms
Solar has been growing as a power source in the US. But it is still a tiny power source, producing enough energy to meet the needs of about 600,000 typical homes, and only while the sun is shining.
Nocera said his development would allow people to bank solar energy as hydrogen and oxygen, which a fuel cell could use to produce energy when the sun was not shining.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthS...how/3316499.cms