{"id":125303,"date":"2021-07-22T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/making-clean-hydrogen-is-hard-but-researchers-just-solved-a-major-hurdle"},"modified":"2021-07-22T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:22:40","slug":"making-clean-hydrogen-is-hard-but-researchers-just-solved-a-major-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/making-clean-hydrogen-is-hard-but-researchers-just-solved-a-major-hurdle","title":{"rendered":"Making clean hydrogen is hard, but researchers just solved a major hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-clean-hydrogen-is-hard-but-researchers-just-solved-a-major-hurdle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, researchers around the world have searched for ways to use solar power to generate the key reaction for producing hydrogen as a clean energy source\u2014splitting water molecules to form hydrogen and oxygen. However, such efforts have mostly failed because doing it well was too costly, and trying to do it at a low cost led to poor performance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have found a low-cost way to solve one half of the equation, using sunlight to efficiently split off oxygen molecules from water. The finding, published recently in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, represents a step forward toward greater adoption of hydrogen as a key part of our energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>As early as the 1970s, researchers were investigating the possibility of using solar energy to generate hydrogen. But the inability to find materials with the combination of properties needed for a device that can perform the key chemical reactions efficiently has kept it from becoming a mainstream method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, researchers around the world have searched for ways to use solar power to generate the key reaction for producing hydrogen as a clean energy source\u2014splitting water molecules to form hydrogen and oxygen. However, such efforts have mostly failed because doing it well was too costly, and trying to do it at a low [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-information-science","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125303","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}