sea water electrolysis

Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis are coaxing oxygen and hydrogen directly out of briny water. The team invented an electrolyzer that can be useful on Earth to tap into oceans as viable…

Hydrogen, whose only byproduct is water, has to be produced from other energy sources: natural gas, nuclear, biomass, solar, or wind power. It isn’t yet a practical source of energy, because 95% of all hydrogen is currently produced from…