Power Plant: One Small Leaf Could Electrify an Entire Home [View All]

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A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed what it describes as the first practical artificial leaf.

"You can think of this as the first dark solar energy because it'll give you solar energy at night in the form of light," Howe added.

Placing the artificial leaf it in a single gallon of water in bright sunlight could produce enough electricity to supply a house in developing countries with its daily electricity requirement, Nocera has claimed.

"One of the problems with solar rays is that they heat up the equipment you use excessively," McGregor explained. "After a certain period, the equipment gets so hot that efficiency goes down. So you want to try to mimic nature and create an ecosystem where all these technologies -- thermal, solar and hydrogen -- work together," he said

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