Thanks for this interesting news, which I have totally missed.
I have a question: how to make sure that we have a continuous flow of reactants? I imagine these need to come from somewhere, and this is the main limitation in this process. Am I correct?
Moving on with my thoughts in that direction, we should then be careful before claiming that those cells are totally zero-emission devices. We indeed should probably account for the extraction process of the reactants, at least for handling a fair environmental budget. Do you have (quantitative) information on this?
Now, I will also come back to the main topic of this blog, and say that the breakthrough you describe is a very cool one. It indeed addresses several issues in one shot (CO2 capture and more efficient cells) and paves te way to future better applications!
Cheers!
Hi friend @lemouth, thanks for stopping by to read, it really looks like a solution capable of addressing those two problems at the same time. And yes, in addition to the efficiency of the cells that could be solved with this separator, is that currently the main source of hydrogen are fossil fuels, so we could not yet speak of a net balance equal to zero emissions, I do not have at hand the inventory of emissions to produce hydrogen by this route, perhaps if in parallel also develop green hydrogen sources, obtained through renewable sources we could really have an alternative with zero emissions. Greetings my friend!
Thanks for coming back to me. I will try to take some time to do some research during the week-end, although this is not guaranteed as I have already quite a full agenda for both days. If you see something in the meantime, please do not hesitate to share it with me.
Cheers!