In the earlier days of this week, while watching CNN International, I run into a wonderful news. The visitor was a professor from MIT and they were going to talk about a recent invention on storing solar energy.
As you may know, solar energy is known to be unlimited as long as the sun lives but limited as it can't be used efficiently because not only the solar panels can't absorb all the energy but also the energy can be obtained only during the daytime. It seems that the absorption is still a problem but the recent news promise in storing the excess energy.
The scientists at MIT, have found a new method to store the excess energy by dividing the water into its ingredients, Hydrogene and Oxygene. Heey, this is already being done worldwide, you might say. But this operation needed high maintenance costs and abnormal operation conditions(temperature, pressure, etc.). This new method, inspired by the photosynthesis, uses a new catalyst consisting of cobalt metal, phosphate and an electrode to produce Oxygen and another catalyst like platinum to produce Hydrogen and does not require any special conditions for the reaction to start.
As this is an easy-implementing method of storing energy, it is tought to change the world, contributing to the works on solutions for the global warming problem. But as the proffessor says, it will take 8 years for us to have these sets on our roofs. I wish it was closer if it was that easy to implement but maybe the other (efficient absorption) problem needs to be solved in order these products to be more efficient.
By the way, I have finished my internship. Nowadays I'm preparing for my TOEFL exam and working on Python as usual. My Python presentation went very well and I saw that most of the aspects of Python could be introduced in 2 hours! Such a beautiful language...
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