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Last week I talked about Mirai, Toyota’s new production fuel cell car. So today I want to talk about Mira, one of the world’s fastest supercomputers that is helping to create hydrogen fuel. Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is using Mira, a 10-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer to study artificial photosynthesis. The idea is to • Read More »

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) scientists and researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) have been working on using both natural plant life and artificial leaves (respectively) in order to create hydrogen gas. NREL scientists are tweaking two iron-sulfur-containing ferredoxins of a certain strain of algae while the ASU researchers are working with artificial photosynthesis. According • Read More »

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) together with the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) have developed a unique artificial photosynthesis component for the creation of hydrogen from water. According to Berkeley Lab, “The new JCAP photocathode construct consists of the semiconductor gallium phosphide and a molecular cobalt-containing hydrogen • Read More »

Researchers at the University of Wollongong (UOW) south of Sydney, Australia, are not the first folk to talk about using seawater to create hydrogen. And they are also not the first to develop an artificial leaf to do the same. But, nonetheless, the scientists at UOW (pictured above) think they have built a better mousetrap. • Read More »

I’ve talked about the artificial leaf many times before as a novel idea in which significant amounts of hydrogen could be produced. In fact, in March of 2011, I had talked about a researcher named Daniel Nocera, Ph.D. who had created such an artificial leaf and was putting the polishing touches on it. Today, however • Read More »

The Tata Group out of India and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor of chemistry Daniel Nocera have signed a deal to develop a commercial version of the artificial leaf to produce hydrogen from sunlight and water. In April 2010, I had talked about the MIT invention to use a solar panel and the M13 • Read More »

I’ve talked about artificial photosynthesis before and how scientists are trying to recreate how plants turn sunlight and water into hydrogen and oxygen. I’ve talked about using solar energy and algae for this process. And, I’ve talked about using bacteria to create hydrogen. Now, I want to talk about solar energy plus a virus named • Read More »

I’ve talked before about researchers at the University of Rochester in New York using artificial photosynthesis to create hydrogen. Now, researchers in China at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University are taking a slightly different tactic to produce hydrogen by developing artificial leaves. For several years now other scientists have been using sunlight through solar panels • Read More »

Researchers at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York are using artificial photosynthesis plus nanotechnology to create hydrogen from sunlight. Even though Energy Secretary Steven Chu has made public statements such as “If it were up to me, I would put every cent into electric cars” the funding for this project to the tune • Read More »