Artificial Leaf
Alexander Pedro
Scientists from MIT have found a way to take energy from the sun and create stored energy. This artificial leaf is a device that needs to wires or external support, just the artificial leaf, water, and sunlight. How the artificial leaf works is by collecting the sunlight and producing bubbles of oxygen and hydrogen bubbles. A simple divider on the artificial leaf separates the oxygen bubbles and the hydrogen bubbles.
What separates this way of solar energy from others is that it can be stored energy. Most other forms of solar energy can be stored easily in a gas form in cells and preserved for later use. The other thing that makes this device impressive is that it is made of completely natural inexpensive materials like silicon, cobalt, and nickel. Other attempts to make a similar device uses corrosive
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