3/27/2009 PERMALINK
Breakthrough invention lets you power your home and car off-grid

We reported last July -- Solar power breakthrough makes energy self-sufficiency a reality -- on a breakthrough home energy system made possible thanks to an invention by Daniel G. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT. Dr. Nocera's breakthrough is truly game changing, actually appearing able to, as the good doctor claims, "transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source."

What Prof. Nocera discovered was a far more efficient catalyst for using electricity to separate water into its basic components Hydrogen and Oxygen. This new catalyst allows solar energy to be practically stored in the form of these two gases, which can be turned back into energy as needed in a fuel cell device.

Prof. Nocera's breakthrough makes it practical to get all of your power for both your home and car directly from the sun. So on the occasion of Professor Nocera's presentation about his revolutionary invention at the Aspen Environment Forum, we wanted to bring this to your attention once again.

With the crisis in our nation's banking system, combined with the huge trade deficits we must run to import enough oil to power our economy, now putting the dollar at risk of a precipitous decline in value that would devastate the American way of life. Prof. Nocera's invention becomes even more vitally important. Because it offers us all a practical way out of that nightmarish scenario. By allowing each of us to replace our insane coal-fired electric company and the long vulnerable Saudi oil pipeline that fuels our vehicles and still funds Taliban fighters killing our troops in Afghanistan, with a rational system that makes each of us personally self-sufficient in energy.... WATCH ... READ