Sun Catalytix Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:45:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Sun Catalytix Flow Battery Stores Hours of Energy from Renewable Power Sources https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sun-catalytix-flow-battery-stores-hours-energy-renewable-power-sources-20130925/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sun-catalytix-flow-battery-stores-hours-energy-renewable-power-sources-20130925/#respond Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:45:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=41850 Sun Catalytix is revolutionizing the renewable energy sector by creating a flow battery that can store hours of renewable energy using inexpensive materials. They are joined by dozens of other companies trying to achieve this. What makes Sun Catalytix stand out in the competition is its chemical structure, cheap materials, and low overall market prices. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sun-catalytix-flow-battery-stores-hours-energy-renewable-power-sources-20130925/feed/ 0 41850 Sun Catalytix’s Grid-Connected Flow Batteries Promise Cheap Energy Storage https://www.greenoptimistic.com/flow-battery-grid-storage-20130307/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/flow-battery-grid-storage-20130307/#respond Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:07:32 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=34519 Sun Catalytix, a company which spun out of MIT in 2009 to bring a low-cost catalyst to the market, has changed its main goal from enabling the hydrogen economy to designing a flow battery for grid storage. The first prototype is expected later this year. The new flow battery will be made of two custom-designed […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/flow-battery-grid-storage-20130307/feed/ 0 34519 Artificial Photosynthesis Could Power Homes on a Bottle of Water https://www.greenoptimistic.com/artificial-photosynthesis-power-home-bottle-water-20100307/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/artificial-photosynthesis-power-home-bottle-water-20100307/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:25:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6790 MIT chemist Dan Nocera claims that with just one bottle of drinking water and four hours of sunlight, he can generate 30 KWh of electric energy, being enough to power an entire home. This process consist in a a cobalt-based catalyst that uses solar energy to split water and produce hydrogen.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/artificial-photosynthesis-power-home-bottle-water-20100307/feed/ 3 6790 Daniel Nocera's Sun Catalytix Receives $7.1 Million for Developing Photosynthesis System https://www.greenoptimistic.com/daniel-noceras-sun-catalytix-receives-7-1-million-for-developing-photosynthesis-system-20091124/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/daniel-noceras-sun-catalytix-receives-7-1-million-for-developing-photosynthesis-system-20091124/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:47:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5470 Daniel G. Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the inventor of the most important solar energy system of the century. His 2007 designed system is able to create cheap solar energy based on the photosynthesis process.

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