UK researchers scale up sunlight reactor that turns plastic waste into clean hydrogen
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University of Cambridge researchers built a solar reactor about one square meter in size that produced hydrogen fuel from plastic waste in outdoor trials, scaling up from an earlier 25-square-centimeter catalyst setup. The new panels are manufactured at room temperature using spray-applied light-absorbing layers on glass.
More work is still needed on durability and efficiency before commercial rollout.
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