Huge green hydrogen milestone

Plus: Researchers in China create device that directly splits seawater to produce hydrogen. Dec 19, 2022 [Blueprint]( What’s lean, green… [and now maybe significantly more affordable]( Green hydrogen. Because thanks to new research, green hydrogen production might be about to become significantly more affordable. In fact, researchers in Australia have found an innovative, promising way to increase the production of green hydrogen by 14 times. They have achieved this by using sound waves through electrolysis to split water. Clever. But before you get stuck into that, get your teeth into this. [This video]( shows a YouTuber arguing AI art is good for humanity. Quite the claim. Good morning. I’m Alice, an Editor at IE. This is The Blueprint. Let’s dive in. Last Sunday, Blueprint subscribers heard about the battery development that could change the world, according to the man behind it. Don't miss out — [subscribe to IE+]( today to receive exclusive interviews, features, and much more. [Play]VIDEO OF THE DAY [YouTuber argues AI art is good for humanity.]( [YouTuber argues AI art is good for humanity.]( It’s for your own good, apparently. [Must Read]MUST READ [Engineers use sound waves to boost green hydrogen production by 14 times.]( [Engineers use sound waves to boost green hydrogen production by 14 times.]( Researchers in Australia have found an innovative, promising way to [increase the production of green hydrogen by 14 times]( – namely by employing sound waves through electrolysis to split water. They say their new invention could significantly reduce green hydrogen production costs. It achieves this by eliminating the need for corrosive electrolytes and expensive electrodes in the process (such as platinum or iridium.) The researchers say sound waves make it much easier to extract hydrogen from water. And because water is not a corrosive electrolyte, you can use much cheaper electrode materials, such as silver, in the process. → The team behind the study says their ability to suppress bubble build-up on the electrodes and rapidly remove them through high-frequency vibrations represents a major advance for electrode conductivity and stability. [READ MORE [Arrow]]( [Facebook]( [INNOVATION]INNOVATION [Researchers in China create device to directly split seawater to produce hydrogen.]( A research team in China has developed a device to [split seawater in order to directly produce hydrogen](. They say the device in question, a membrane-based seawater electrolyzer, helps address the side-reaction and corrosion problems of traditional methods. The team say their model ran for over 3,200 hours under practical application conditions without failure. This new strategy realizes efficient, size-flexible, and scalable direct seawater electrolysis in a way similar to freshwater splitting, but without a notable increase in operational cost. [READ MORE [Arrow]]( [CULTURE]CULTURE [FTX caught depositing 8 billion dollars of customer money into secret accounts.]( [Alameda Research, a hedge fund heavily invested in FTX]( and owned by Sam Bankman-Fried, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. It has emerged that its FTX exchange code was tweaked in the Mid 2020s to make sure Alameda Research was protected from an automatic selling-off of assets, if the hedge fund was losing too much borrowed money. This allowed Sam Bankman-Fried to use client money, placed with Alameda Research, for the purchase of non-disclosed venture investments, political donations, and luxury items, like real estate and vehicles, to the tune of $8 billion. 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