Paint + fog = fuel

[Outlaw Yogi]

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Reproduced (by hand) from The Australian, Thursday 15/6/17.

Brush with genius: paint can convert fog into fuel

Melbourne researchers say they have createda paint that can turn water vapour into hydrogen, openinhg thr door to a fuel sourced from fog.

RMIT University engineers have developed a compound that can absorb moisture and split the molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

When it is mixed into paint, titanium oxide - a white pigment also in toothpaste and sunscreen - powers the reaction using energy from the sun.

The world-first approach, described in the American Chemical Society journal 'Nano', could convert any wall into a pollution free, energy harvesting system.
The only byproducts would be oxygen when fuel was collected, and water when it was burnt.

"It's a very clean process" said lead researcher Torben Daeneke. "We don't have side products like carbon dioxide ornitrogen oxide. It's an energy storage
technologu and solar-photovoltaic technology combined in onr".

Dr Daeneke said the technique needed embellishing with systems for collecting and storing the hydrogen, and ensuring it did not explode. However, much
of this technology existed, and the approach could be ready for the market within five years. He said the hydrogen would be collected using transparent silicon
membranes forming "a thin glazing on top of the product. It's a question of intergration. It woul;d require some tweaking and optimisation, but definitely
should be doable.

Team member Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh saidhydrogen was the cleanest source of energy, and could be used in fuel cells and in conventional copmbustion engines.
"This system can also be used in dry, hot climates near oceans" he said.

"The sea water is evaporatred by the sunlight and the vapour can be absorbed to produce fuel.

"This is an extraordinary concept - making fule from the sun and water vapour in the air".

Dr Daeneke said the team was exploring hom much power could be generated. Although the yield in the laboratory was "considerable", real-world harvests were
harder to forecast.

"You should be able to get enough to power small devices," he said. "I'm not sure you could immediately collect enough to run a car from Melbourne to Sydney
- that would be quite a stretch - but the efficiency is quite high".

For industrial purposes, hydrogen is processed from fossil fuels. Most research into spliting water has focused on its liquid form.

[Super Nova]

Found the article. Pretty amazing really.

It would be good in the gulf, there is plenty of sun and very high humidity for 5 months of the year. You think It would be dry but near the sea the humidity is a killer.

The windows of shops is covered in condensation.