Not exact matches
Also, while
electrolysis uses a renewable feedstock (
water), burning fossil fuels at a
power plant to run an
electrolysis machine undermines the fuel's low - carbon attributes.
An M.I.T. researcher thinks he's found a way to efficiently use solar
power to drive the
electrolysis of
water, which would isolate hydrogen for fuel cells.
Stone's proposed venture would create rocket fuel by melting
water ice from the moon's soil, purifying it (exactly how, he says, is a trade secret), and splitting it into hydrogen and oxygen, perhaps using a solar -
powered electrolysis system.
Carrying a portable
power inverter and copper pipes to Michael Heizer's Double Negative (1969), Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty (1970) and Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels (1976), an ion exchange with each site was produced via a process of copper
electrolysis (a reaction of copper, salt and
water in the presence of electricity).
That's because you can make it in two ways: steam - methane reformation, which means that it is a fossil fuel, and the source for 95 percent of hydrogen) or
electrolysis of
water, which makes it essentially a battery storing electric
power.
In 2006, a study for the IEEE showed that for hydrogen produced via
electrolysis of
water: «Only about 25 % of the
power generated from wind,
water, or sun is converted to practical use.»
Producing hydrogen and oxygen by the
electrolysis of
water (the hydrogen could later be used to
power clean fuel - cell vehicles, oxygen has many uses);
Hydrogen can also be generated by
electrolysis of
water by using extra electricity generated by wind and / or solar collection to be stored for burning in
power plants when those collection systems have lulls especially for solar at night, of course.
The production of chlorine by solar -
powered electrolysis prevents the re-growth of undesirable bacteria in the recycled
water.
Electrolysis, which uses electricity to break hydrogen away from oxygen in
water can be
powered sustainably by renewable energy.