Shug on 5/8/2008 at 00:25
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Currently available electrolyzers, which split water with electricity and are often used industrially, are not suited for artificial photosynthesis because they are very expensive and require a highly basic (non-benign) environment that has little to do with the conditions under which photosynthesis operates
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Pyrian on 6/8/2008 at 02:10
Meh. As long as the end system still requires significant quantities of platinum, it'll never be mass produced.
Jenesis on 10/8/2008 at 19:13
Shug - yeah, that's what confused me. Nothing 'highly basic' about Nafion, as far as I'm aware, and that's used fairly commonly for PEM fuel cells. I played around with one for a while when I spent a year working for an R&D company round here. Possibly they don't scale well, I dunno.
