This innovative method will produce hydrogen from solar during the day then power fuel cells at night with the hydrogen to produce power.
Energy doesn’t get much cleaner than that! And it also provides an excellent way to store power from solar to be used at night.
I really enjoy reading your blog, it always has great insight. But I am very frustrated with the media’s lack of questions to the presidential candidates about global warming. Now that it is down to just a few candidates I would think that this would be a bigger issue.
Live Earth just picked up this topic and put out an article ( http://www.liveearth.org/news.php ) asking why the presidential candidates are not being solicited for their stance on the issue of the climate change. I just saw an article describing each candidate’s stance on global warming and climate change on earthlab.com http://www.earthlab.com/articles/PresidentialCandidates.aspx . So obviously they care about it. Is it the Medias fault for not asking the right questions or is it the candidates’ fault for not highlighting the right platforms? Does anyone know of other websites or articles that touch on this subject and candidates’ views? This is the biggest problem of the century and for generations to come…you would think the next president of the United States would be more vocal about it.
Producing hydrogen/oxygen is one use of planned excess solar energy. If hydrogen and and oxygen are stored, under pressure, for use in semi-permiable membrane fuel cell technolgoy at night it will work. What is the scale? However, there might be more efficent, and safer, energy storage techniques which allow massive solar energy farms in, say deserts, which do not have an abundance of water. Good idea. We need more chit chat on this topic. Thanks fo rthe post!