Chris Baskind

I want to marry you, MIT. Maybe not the guy in the photo. But MIT, in general. - Chris Baskind via Bookmarklet

I love Solar energy!! bring it!! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Really, Chris? That handsome beard is not doing anything for you? - Mark Trapp

Thanks for shedding light on this important subject. Heh, see what I did there? - Jim Stanger

Jim You caused a bulb to go off in my head..oh wait,it was only a blood vessel. - Mark Forman

A fine beard, I must admit. - Chris Baskind

wow, possibly breaking the storage constraint? This is BIG. - Casey

Yeah -- if it's efficient, it's a revolution. It would change the world. - Chris Baskind

Where can I start investing ? :D - Mo Kargas

I wonder how Rockefellers feel about this? - Igor The Troll

Why are the news stories on this all focusing on the solar aspect? The breakthrough doesn't have anything to do with solar per se, as near as I can tell. Nocera's just come up with a cheap, easy (possibly highly efficient) way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. That hydrogen can go straight into your electric fuel cell vehicle. - Karim

Probably because it mates with PV so well. But -- yes -- it could supply any kind of fuel cell. I wanna hear more about this. - Chris Baskind

Seems like batteries and ultracapacitors would be better for storing charge if that's all you want to do... but since they haven't announced the efficiency of the new process, it's hard to say. "We don't need gasoline anymore" sounds like a less misleading headline than "Solar energy might just work now" ;-) - Karim

I believe that investing in innovation of alternative energies and other sustainability factors will help bring the US back to #1 (if it's not already there) in terms of technology. - imabonehead

Hydrogen is going to be a more stable energy storage and transport medium than batteries and transmission lines. The reason everyone is mentioning solar energy is that this could be a way to get around transmission line bottlenecks. Store hydrogen at the massive solar power plant in the desert, transport it to your home fuel cell (and fill up your hydrogen car while you're at it). And of course, if you're in a sunny place, you can skip several of the intermediate steps I just mentioned. - Jason Wehmhoener