Sydney Morning Herald reported that chemical catalysts are being considered as a method for producing energy from plants.

The market news is quoted as saying:

Nocera’s team has developed a prototype “artificial leaf” device the size of a playing card. Using the sun and a bucket of water, it could supply a house in a developing country with enough electricity for a day. “Our goal is to make each home its own power station,” he says. The silicon device, coated in a catalyst, splits water into oxygen and hydrogen. The big advance is that the chemical catalysts the team has developed are made of cheap, widely available materials – nickel and cobalt.

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