A System That Splits Water with Sunlight Alone
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Dr Ailbe Ó Manacháin built a new thing.
- A2
Dr Ailbe Ó Manacháin and his team built a new system.
- B1
European researchers in the FreeHydroCells project have worked for nearly four years.
- B2
After nearly four years of work, European researchers in the FreeHydroCells project have built a single, carbon-free multicell system.
- C1
Hydrogen is expected to help Europe move away from fossil fuels, which release carbon dioxide when burned.
- C2
As Europe seeks to move away from fossil fuels, which release carbon dioxide when burned, hydrogen is expected to play a part in the transition.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- split
- to divide or break something into two or more separate parts
- pollution
- damage caused to water, air or land by dirty or harmful substances
- device
- an object or small machine that is made for a specific job
- layer
- a thin sheet of a substance that covers a surface or lies between other things
- recycle
- to treat used materials so that they can be used again
- artificial
- made by people, often as a copy of something natural
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation Magazine. Read the original for the full report.