Important Innovations

  D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF                By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane MIT'S HYDROGEN ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH                                                                                      Source:  MIT and Stock MIT engineers have a design for a revolutionary system to generate hydrogen cheaply and efficiently using only solar power.  Here's what we know: MIT engineers have designed a train-like system of reactors that generate hydrogen solely by solar power MIT says the system harnesses and uses 40% of the sunlight coming into it The MIT system uses the sun's heat to break and split water into hydrogen This is a major breakthrough because of its green efficiency Conventional systems use fossil fuels to produce hydrogen This procedure produces no greenhouse gas emissions It produces "solar thermochemical hydrogen" which is a clean fuel that can power planes, ships and trucks for long distance travel Other attempts to build such a system have b