The Photosynthesis Wars

[Songbird]

Pretty cool idea about mimicking photosynthesis in fake leaves to produce energy.

http://news.yahoo.com/chemist-hopes-artificial-leaf-power-civilization-using-photosynthesis-173654018--abc-news-tech.html

 

[Football_Bat]

Pretty cool idea about mimicking photosynthesis in fake leaves to produce energy.

http://news.yahoo.com/chemist-hopes-artificial-leaf-power-civilization-using-photosynthesis-173654018--abc-news-tech.html

Much was made of "the grid" in this story. If this technology bears fruit, "the grid" will cease to exist.

But good luck with all that. If chlorophyll was all that and a bag of chips, we'd have redwood sequoia spaceports by now and be ducking human rat traps all along.