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Related: About this forumBionic leaf turns sunlight into liquid fuel—New system surpasses efficiency of photosynthesis
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/06/bionic-leaf-turns-sunlight-into-liquid-fuel/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Bionic leaf turns sunlight into liquid fuel[/font]
[font size=4]New system surpasses efficiency of photosynthesis[/font]
June 2, 2016
By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer
[font size=3]The days of drilling into the ground in the search for fuel may be numbered, because if Daniel Nocera has his way, itll just be a matter of looking for sunny skies.
Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, and Pamela Silver, the Elliott T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, have co-created a system that uses solar energy to split water molecules and hydrogen-eating bacteria to produce liquid fuels.
The paper, whose lead authors include postdoctoral fellow Chong Liu and graduate student Brendan Colón, is described in a June 3 paper published in Science.
This is a true artificial photosynthesis system, Nocera said. Before, people were using artificial photosynthesis for water-splitting, but this is a true A-to-Z system, and weve gone well over the efficiency of photosynthesis in nature.
[font size=1] A cross-disciplinary team at Harvard University has created a system that uses solar energy to split water molecules and hydrogen-eating bacteria to produce liquid fuels. The system can convert solar energy to biomass with 10 percent efficiency, far above the one percent seen in the fastest-growing plants.[/font]
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf5039[font size=4]New system surpasses efficiency of photosynthesis[/font]
June 2, 2016
By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer
[font size=3]The days of drilling into the ground in the search for fuel may be numbered, because if Daniel Nocera has his way, itll just be a matter of looking for sunny skies.
Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, and Pamela Silver, the Elliott T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, have co-created a system that uses solar energy to split water molecules and hydrogen-eating bacteria to produce liquid fuels.
The paper, whose lead authors include postdoctoral fellow Chong Liu and graduate student Brendan Colón, is described in a June 3 paper published in Science.
This is a true artificial photosynthesis system, Nocera said. Before, people were using artificial photosynthesis for water-splitting, but this is a true A-to-Z system, and weve gone well over the efficiency of photosynthesis in nature.
[font size=1] A cross-disciplinary team at Harvard University has created a system that uses solar energy to split water molecules and hydrogen-eating bacteria to produce liquid fuels. The system can convert solar energy to biomass with 10 percent efficiency, far above the one percent seen in the fastest-growing plants.[/font]
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Bionic leaf turns sunlight into liquid fuel—New system surpasses efficiency of photosynthesis (Original Post)
OKIsItJustMe
Jun 2016
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tonyt53
(5,737 posts)1. Robots replacing people AND trees.
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)2. Don’t look at it that way
Today, people are cutting down rain forest to plant crops for biofuels.
https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/topics/biofuel
This system produces fuels much more efficiently. It will save trees.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)3. If this can scale up, in practice, this could be huge
It gives the chance of liquid fuels with no net carbon emissions - vital for aerospace, and very useful for ocean and land transportation too.