Morgan - 28-3-2011 at 18:08
I'm not a chemist and I'm sure Nocera knows many things I don't, but from all the things I've read, to be kind I would say he (and MIT) really
stretched the truth. It's nice to be hopeful, but to make fantastic claims before you have everything is almost sad.
Debut of the first practical “artificial leaf”
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&...
MIT TechTV - Tiny Bubbles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-M9VU_36NQ
Daniel Nocera describes new process for storing solar energy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ok8cOJbmo
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4378
[Edited on 29-3-2011 by Morgan]
Morgan - 12-4-2011 at 18:16
"Alyson holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Calgary and a M.A. in journalism from New York University’s Science, Health
and Environmental Reporting program. Her work has been featured at Scientific American online, OnEarth, CurioCity.ca, and the website of the American
Museum of Natural History."
http://www.climatecentral.org/about/people/alyson-kenward/
"As a trained chemist, I wanted to reserve judgment until I could see this invention for myself. Lucky for me, this weekend I had the chance. And I
have to say it was pretty impressive."
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/nocera-takes-solar-energ...
"I remember sitting in a meeting once - in our field we were under increasing pressure to come up with useful devices and not just study stuff because
we thought it was interesting. The first adaptation was that in virtually every talk there was a slide to talk about "device potential". Most of us
knew it was all BS, but that was how the game was played. That's not to say that some day there won't be a breakthrough of some sort someday, but you
really need to put on the BS deflectors before you start reading these types of reports."
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4378
Brink - Storing Solar Energy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq7ISUYxsYA