Environmentally friendly fuel cells may someday power most cars, homes, and industries. Yet the energy they supply won’t be all that clean if the hydrogen that the fuel cells consume derives from fossil fuels. So says Stuart Licht of the University of Massachusetts in Boston, who leads a U.S.–Israeli team of researchers that has demonstrated a new solar-powered way to produce hydrogen from water.
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