Who Needs Plants When You Can Harness Solar Energy With An Artificial Leaf?
Deploying solar energy to mimic photosynthesis is harder than it looks, but a team from Berkeley Lab has cracked part of the “artificial leaf” code.
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Department of Energy Announces $100 Million for Artificial Photosynthesis Research
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $100 million in funding over five years for two new awards focused on advancing artificial photosynthesis for the production of fuels from sunlight.
More Solar Power To Drive The All-Electric Economy Of The Sparkling Green Future
Best friends forever: renewable hydrogen could help provide more bandwidth in the grid for millions of battery EVs due to hit the road in the coming years.
Cost Of Carbon Capture Plummets Thanks To Two New Techniques
Carbon capture researchers have discovered new techniques that could significantly reduce the cost of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or keeping it from entering the atmosphere in the first place.
“Killer” Bacteria To The Rescue! Scientists Enlist E.Coli To Make Planet-Saving Plastic Out Of Practically…
The notorious E. coli bacteria plays a role in a “revolutionary” new artificial photosynthesis system that converts waste carbon dioxide into plastic.
President Obama Adds $75 Million Artificial Photosynthesis Project To Rhymes-With-Bucket List
The Obama Administration is throwing $75 million at another one of those silly-sounding research projects, artificial photosynthesis.
Supersonic “Solar Fuel Cell” Could Churn Out Sustainable Hydrogen
First came the artificial leaf, then came the bionic leaf, now make way for a “supersonic solar fuel cell” that uses sunlight to make hydrogen fuel.
Artificial Photosynthesis — Kinetic Bottlenecks In Key Step Revealed, Improvements Coming
Significant kinetic bottlenecks in the processes of artificial photosynthesis — bottlenecks which if removed will boost the efficiency of these artificial systems — have been revealed by new research from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. These bottlenecks were identified thanks to the researchers’ achievement of the first-ever, direct “temporally resolved … [continued]
Artificial Leaf Technology Clears Major Development Hurdle
The technology of artificial photosynthesis has cleared a major hurdle in its development — researchers from Arizona State University and Argonne National Laboratory have identified and addressed one of the primary limitations in their design of a functional artificial leaf. The creation of a functional artificial leaf — one capable … [continued]
For Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Blue Is The New Green
A team of researchers at Argonne National Laboratory has figured out an efficient way to split hydrogen gas from water, using a low cost cobalt-based catalyst instead of pricey platinum. Hmmm, well, we were just wondering when hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles would start nudging ahead of plug-in EVs in … [continued]
