Semi-Artificial Photosynthesis Research Offers Hope For Hydrogen Fuel

Clean Technica: In the US, almost all the hydrogen used for transportation is actually made from natural gas. We know natural gas burns cleaner than coal and diesel fuel, but it is derived mostly from fracking, a process that contaminates huge amounts of water and releases enormous amounts of methane into the atmosphere.

artificial photosynthesis jcap 2Researchers for years have been trying to create hydrogen the way nature does — through photosynthesis using energy from sunlight. There are several methods of doing this, but all of them are relatively inefficient, costly, and require the use of catalysts that are either too expensive or highly toxic — or both.

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