Imperial College London get grant to study solar powered H2 production
Imperial College London has picked up $8.4 million in funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to work on cost effective means of generating hydrogen from solar power. The school will be investigating both biological and chemical process that are driven by energy from the sun over the next five years. One of the keys to making hydrogen a truly environmentally friendly energy source is to power the generation without using existing fuel sources like nuclear or coal. The research team will build a prototype reactor that can be used for both industrial and domestic applications. The biological processes will focus on using algae to produce oxygen and hydrogen while chemical processes will be developed to use photo-electrodes to split water.
[Source: Imperial College London]
The engineering and business schools at Imperial College London in England are cooperating a program called EnVision 2010, that brings together students from two groups to help train them better for the world they will enter after school. Their biggest project within this is called Imperial Hybrid Racing, in which they will design, build, and race a hybrid electric fuel cell race car. That part of the program sounds much like the student design competitions run by the 
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