{"id":125086,"date":"2021-07-17T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T20:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientists-are-now-transforming-saltwater-into-hydrogen-fuel"},"modified":"2021-07-17T13:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T20:22:35","slug":"scientists-are-now-transforming-saltwater-into-hydrogen-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientists-are-now-transforming-saltwater-into-hydrogen-fuel","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Now Transforming Saltwater Into Hydrogen Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-now-transforming-saltwater-into-hydrogen-fuel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Thanks to Stanford researchers, there might be a new recipe for hydrogen fuel: saltwater, electrodes and solar power. The researchers have developed a proof-of-concept for separating hydrogen and oxygen gas from seawater via electricity. It\u2019s far cheaper than the current methods, which rely on creating hydrogen fuel from purified water.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking up a substance like water to create hydrogen and oxygen is called electrolysis and is a scientific technique centuries old. It was first codified by British scientific legend Michael Faraday, whose <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/chem.libretexts.org\/Bookshelves\/Analytical_Chemistry\/Supplemental_Modules_(Analytical_Chemistry)\/Electrochemistry\/Faraday's_Law\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/chem.libretexts.org\/Bookshelves\/Analytical_Chemistry\/Supplemental_Modules_(Analytical_Chemistry)\/Electrochemistry\/Faraday's_Law\">two laws of electrolysis<\/a> from 1834 still guide scientists today. With a power source connecting to two water-based electrodes, scientists can get hydrogen bubbles to come out of an end called an cathode, while oxygen comes out of an end called an anode.<\/p>\n<p>That works fine for fresh water, but <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/infrastructure\/a17040\/how-it-works-desalinating-ocean-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/infrastructure\/a17040\/how-it-works-desalinating-ocean-water\/\">saltwater is trickier<\/a> because of its ability to corrode electrodes with chloride, which would limit a system\u2019s lifespan. The trick for Hongjie Dai, a professor of chemistry at Stanford, and his team was a change in materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 Thanks to Stanford researchers, there might be a new recipe for hydrogen fuel: saltwater, electrodes and solar power. The researchers have developed a proof-of-concept for separating hydrogen and oxygen gas from seawater via electricity. It\u2019s far cheaper than the current methods, which rely on creating hydrogen fuel from purified water. Breaking up a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125086","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}