Waste Water is going to be New Source of Energy

A league of esteemed researchers from from MIT have put together an interesting way of providing electricity to households.

Unlike most solutions which involve solar energy, this one creates electricity out of water. They say that one and a half bottle of waste water could power an entire for one day.

Technology used:

It is known to be more efficient than conventional solar cells. It rests on the same mechanism which plant use to crack water with the help of sunlight into oxygen and hydrogen. They then combine the hydrogen with carbon dioxide to make sugar that is like their energy reservoir.

TEAM:

One of the team members of the MIT research group came up with an artificial leaf that makes use of cobalt and phosphate to split water molecules with help of just sunlight. Here when the oxygen and hydrogen are recombined, electricity at higher efficient level is created.

It’s then easy to store the gas to be recombined later in a fuel for use when the sun is off for the day.

In to MARKET:

The research folks have teamed with the Tata group to commercialize this technology. If it works, only a swimming pool of water everyday would be needed to meet world’s electricity needs in 2050.