{"id":109203,"date":"2020-06-27T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/low-cost-solar-to-hydrogen-cell-achieves-breakthrough-17-6-efficiency"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:52:07","slug":"low-cost-solar-to-hydrogen-cell-achieves-breakthrough-17-6-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/low-cost-solar-to-hydrogen-cell-achieves-breakthrough-17-6-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Low-cost solar-to-hydrogen cell achieves breakthrough 17.6% efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/low-cost-solar-to-hydrogen-cell-achieves-breakthrough-17-6-efficiency3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen\u2019s impressive energy density offers some compelling advantages that could see it make a huge difference in the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/aircraft\/interview-zeroavia-val-miftakhov-hydrogen-aviation\/\">electric aviation<\/a> and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/aircraft\/evtol-air-taxi-flying-car-market-players\/\">eVTOL sectors<\/a>, as well as in renewable energy, where it\u2019s a lightweight and transportable, if not particularly efficient, way to store clean energy that\u2019s not necessarily generated where or when you need it. It\u2019s also being pushed as a means of exporting green energy, and Japan and Korea in particular are investing heavily in the idea of a hydrogen energy economy powering everything from vehicles to homes and industry.<\/p>\n<p>For this to come about in a globally positive way, it\u2019s imperative that clean, green hydrogen production becomes cheaper, because right now, the easiest and cheapest ways to get yourself a tank full of hydrogen are things like steam reforming, which produces up to 12 times as much carbon dioxide as it does hydrogen by weight.<\/p>\n<p>Green, renewable production methods are thus hot topics for researchers and industry, and a new breakthrough from scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) could make a significant contribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen\u2019s impressive energy density offers some compelling advantages that could see it make a huge difference in the electric aviation and eVTOL sectors, as well as in renewable energy, where it\u2019s a lightweight and transportable, if not particularly efficient, way to store clean energy that\u2019s not necessarily generated where or when you need it. It\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}