Iron ion enables photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from methanol (www.nature.com)

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[-] eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't see much practical use from this work. It is very easy to generate hydrogen from methanol from small fuel reformers which can be onboard for vehicular use.

[-] Lonesome_Lorakian@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, they're selling this as a sustainable reaction because the second product is apparently formic acid instead of CO~2~. But of course that means less hydrogen per molecule of methanol and the efficiency using sunlight also seems to be low. So I would agree, sustainable in theory but absolutely nowhere near practical for anything.

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