Comment on 'ultimate energy breakthrough?'

     Leave it to Massachusetts Institute of Technology to come up with a solution to the one road block the economy has been concerned about for some time: The ability to store and use solar energy on a massive scale at night time. This has eluded scientist since the dawn of solar panels. But now MIT has discovered a catalyst that will effectively and inexpensively store solar energy on a mass scale for use at night without the emission of carbon. Nocera and Mathew Kanan are the ones that came up with the idea of utilizing the solar power of the sun to "split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases; thereby, allowing them to be recombined inside a fuel cell (para. 5). This discovery came about after creating a new catalyst made of cobalt, metal, and phoshpate together with an electrode which is then placed in water. Finally, technology has opened a possible doorway to eliminating our insurmountable addiction to fossil fuels. The sun has been staring us in the face with enough energy to run the planet for a year after just one hour of exposure. Unfortunately, the idea or discovery is not practical due inapplicable electrolyzers. But according to MIT, that step is not far from reality. Hopefully ten million dollars in funding for the next ten years will be sufficient enough to make this dream of renewable large scale energy a way of life to the world.