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August 07, 2013

CU-Boulder team develops new water splitting technique that could produce hydrogen fuel
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 07, 2013
A University of Colorado Boulder team has developed a radically new technique that uses the power of sunlight to efficiently split water into its components of hydrogen and oxygen, paving the way for the broad use of hydrogen as a clean, green fuel. The CU-Boulder team has devised a solar-thermal system in which sunlight could be concentrated by a vast array of mirrors onto a single point atop a central tower up to several hundred feet tall. The tower would gather heat generated by the mirror syst ... read more

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