Reasons Why Science Is Awesomesauce, #399

[chaointe]

Been a while since I posted one of these!

Artificial Leaf Could Be More Efficient Than the Real Thing:

Speaking at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in California, MIT professor Daniel Nocera claims to have created an artificial leaf made from stable and inexpensive materials that mimics nature’s photosynthesis process

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The possibility of direct fuel synthesis is also interesting

[ibabeu]

Technically carbon neutral as it takes the C from the atmosphere it means storing the energy of the sun as fuel. So for applications where batteries are a long way from providing solutions, like air travel, it could be a nice boon.

Instead of making sugar the way plants do, you just assemble longer chains.

[sistahraven]

Shiney.