Personalized Solar Energy is the Solution to the Future Needs

Posted on 20 December 2009

A scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has declared that new discoveries are underway to move the society toward the era of “personalized solar energy.”

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According to Professor Daniel Nocera, such an era would shift the focus of electricity production, from huge central generating stations to individuals in their own homes and communities.

Moreover, Nocera also predicted that the global energy needs will double by mid-century and triple by 2100, resulting from higher standards of living and world population growth.

In order to meet the demand in a sustainable way, especially in poorer areas of the world, personalized solar energy by capturing and storing solar energy at the individual or home level, would prove beneficial.

Nocera plans to do this by introducing an innovative catalyst that splits water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen that become fuel for producing electricity in a fuel cell. According to him, the new oxygen-evolving catalyst works like photosynthesis, producing clean energy from sunlight and water.

 

 

 

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