One of the big stumbling blocks to widespread solar (besides its current high cost), is the ability to store power for use at night or cloudy days. Daniel Nocera, a professor of chemistry at MIT, has found an effective way to use sunlight to extract hydrogen from water.
This is lab scale only so far. The big question is how well does this scale up?
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