[Marxism] "Major Discovery" From MIT Primed to Unleash Solar Revolution

[David Walters]

A lot of "ifs" on this one. Worth watching closely but this is not the 
first time such predictions were made about "easy" cracking of H20 for 
usable hydrogen. Most talk of a "hydrogen economy" has fallen by the 
side of the road because there has never been a way to store it easily, 
and, of course, there absolutely no infrastructure to support such an 
"economy". My bets are still on a "fission-to-electricity" 
infrastructure answer to our energy needs.

Part of the problem is this focus on "consumer market". It almost 
irrelevant to the energy question and problems we all face. Residential 
electrical needs are, at best, only 20% of the consumption of electrical 
power. So the focus of such a new way of cracking hydrogen from water 
will be to enhance the larger central power solar stations (where ALL 
the money is going these days) that have had "issues" with being only 
available in most of the northern hemisphere for about 5 1/2 hours a day 
for peak efficiency.  If large solar plants (the kind that produce steam 
to run turbines, not the 'photovoltaic' types) can use this method to 
store power during their peak times, then this technology, if it's 
applicable, could revolutionize power production. The idea of storing 
hydrogen in you house is just plain dumb.

David