![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920044546im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field 'Major Discovery' From MIT Primed to Unleash Solar Revolution
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July 31, 2008
![the new oxygen catalyst](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920044546im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/water_refinery_l.jpg) | Until now, solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing extra solar energy for later use is prohibitively expensive and grossly inefficient. MIT researchers have hit upon a simple, inexpensive, highly efficient process for storing solar energy. Full story |
Source Massachusetts Institute of Technology See also: NSF News Release ![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920044546im_/http://nsf.gov/images/bluefadesm.jpg)
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