The machine to transform light into fuel
Some specialists are debating today whether for the new and dawned world of renewable energies investment or technology is more important. For some, without technology there would be no discovery or growth, but without investment directly there was no possibility of being able to use or create technology.
nnn However, in the California University of Technology scientific advances and technology go hand in hand, in order to create a new really useful device.nnIn conjunction with the Paul Scherrer Institute and the Eidgenossische College, a group of researchers managed to create a reactor that quickly produces fuel through sunlightBasically, the reactor works by capturing the sun rays that are concentrated in a quartz crystal to reflect that light in cerium oxide, from where hydrogen fuel is created by releasing oxygen from water. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
nnFor the moment it is a small but technologically very useful reactorAlthough it is in the testing phase, its reduced capacity will also be useful to assist in the uptake of renewable energy sources.