Startup pledges hydrogen from sun and water

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Nanoptek has developed a model whereby sunlight hits an electrode. The electrode splits the light into a positive charge and an electron, and the electron is used to split the water molecule into hydrogen. While other firms have tried this approach with a similar titania electrode, it has failed in application. Nanoptek is convinced their process will work because they have doped the electrode with other materials to stress it, similar to germanium doping in ICs to make strained silicon (Which Intel uses).

Let's hope it works, as current methane/water procedures dump tons of carbon. Oops.