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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
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To: Dan3 who wrote (82633)8/3/2008 11:19:03 PM
From: Webster Groves  Read Replies (1) of 116555
 
You are certainly entitled to comment and have an opinion. Don't let the "experts" be the clergy of science.

What MIT did was enhance the production of oxygen from electrolysis. The Co-P catalyst in pH neutral water does a job just as well as caustic solutions previously required. That is the key. You still need an energy source - that's solar photovoltaic as mentioned in the article, Another related catalytic reaction produces H2 , so together you have a storable fuel source produced by solar energy (via intermediates). The importance is scalability. A good process that requires Pt is not scalable to industrial production, whereas Co-P is. I think they are doing a great job at MIT. Imagine if they were funded at a level 1% of what big oil pays lobbyists to stall alternative energy.

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PS - I'm long Canadian producers.
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