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Apr 18, 2014

New "solar thermal fuel" Has Energy Density of Lead Batteries →

Rather than breaking apart the fuel molecule through combustion, solar thermal fuels release heat by rearranging bonds within a molecule, leaving all the atoms in place. As a result, they can be recycled repeatedly.

Horray for organic chemistry! I'm pretty sure azobenzene was our class's primary example of cis- and trans- isomers, and using the molecular rotation for energy storage is quite clever.

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H. Parker Shelton

I'm just an ordinary thirty-something who's had some extraordinary opportunities. I graduated from Johns Hopkins University, work for Microsoft in Silicon Valley, code websites and applications, take the occasional photograph, and keep a constant eye on current events, politics, and technology. This blog is the best of what catches that eye.

 
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