ShOcK yOu Up!: Let the Sun guide you!

Let’s travel some years in the past. Where are we? I give you a clue; pyramids and sand. Yes Ancient Egypt. From all the religions, I really do think theirs was the one that made more sense, since ever. Their gods were personifications of various nature´s aspects, and their mythology was based on natural events. One of the deities they worshiped was Ra, the Sun god (actually the sky god (Horus) was also considered Sun god).

Why would they worship the Sun that burned their backs while building the mighty pyramids?

The answer: they were a smart civilization, and they knew the Sun was their main source of energy. They also worshiped some Nile river deities such as Hapy and Osiris.

Hum… water and sun… does this remembers you anything?

On my first post I talked about electrolysis, a method to break water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen atoms, using electricity. Sun is indubitably our main and more durable source of energy. Water… well 71% of our planet is covered by it. Why don’t we just join the useful to the pleasant?

This has been made, since beginning of time, first, by cyanobacteries, and after several years of evolution, by plants.

Photosynthesis, that is how plants produce carbohydrates using water and sun.

Why does this matter to solve our energetic problems? Photosynthesis, in the middle of the process, split the water molecule into oxygen and hydrogen! Fantastic! If we could use a ‘synthetic photosynthesis machine’ we would have an extremely efficient way to transform sun’s energy into hydrogen. That could be used in many useful ways to produce clean energy.

And if I told you, we can? Apparently some scientists have been developing this, and now having good cost/profit, and efficiency rates!

This might be the revolution in energy storage, the scientific community has been waiting for. Through this way we can capture, store and use the ‘perfect fuel’ that doesn’t leaves any residue except pure water!

Apparently, Ancient Egyptians had a good reason to worship their gods. Didn’t they?