"How technology can halt climate change"

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How technology can halt climate change

by Wendy Koch at USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/30/climate-change-technologies/4041931/

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3. Artificial photosynthesis could yield an entirely new, emissions-free energy source. In 2011, Nocera unveiled his "artificial leaf" — a credit-card-sized silicon solar wafer that, when placed in a glass of tap water and exposed to sunlight, generates hydrogen and oxygen bubbles that can be stored and — when needed — recombined in a fuel cell to generate electricity.

"We already know how to do this," Nocera says. The problem: His water-splitting device generates hydrogen fuel, but there's no network yet of hydrogen filling stations in the United States. So his start-up, Sun Catalytix, launched to develop the device, is now focusing instead on grid-scale flow batteries.

DOE is funding related research at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, led by the California Institute of Technology. "The goal is to produce a chemical liquid fuel" that can replace gasoline, says spokesman William Royea, adding it will likely take a decade or so to reduce costs enough to make it commercially viable.





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[Warren Stupidity]

1. The premise is flawed. Climate change will continue to happen.

The issue at this point is only how severe it will be. Technology can slow down climate change, not halt climate change.

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3. I debated whether to post this. But the list of stuff in the future made me put it up.

The more we talk about alternatives to fossil fuels, the better.

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4. I agree, I just hate the framing in the headline.

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5. That happens often. They'll be a nugget of info I like in an article but you have to put

the title and the whole thing up if you put it up at all.

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2. Had we but world enough, and time

It's hard to imagine any human intervention that would change things at this late date. Nothing we can do now will alter what's going to happen in the next 50 or 100 years.