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Scientists Mimic Photosynthesis to Create New ‘Solar Fuel’
Posted by admin in General Sciences on March 19, 2010
For decades, scientists have been trying create a fuel by mimicking photosynthesis: the miraculous way that plants make their own food by borrowing energy from sunlight. Now researchers at Emory University have made a breakthrough discovery that may
Developer Proposes 30,000 Solar Dishes in California Desert
Posted by admin in Environment on February 20, 2010
Federal efforts to permit nearly a dozen large-scale solar-power projects in California by year’s end took a big step forward last week as the Bureau of Land Management rolled out a detailed environmental review for one of the largest plants proposed to date — a 750-MW concentrated solar facility in the Colorado Desert.
13 Great Solar Concepts Inspired By Plants
Posted by admin in General Sciences on September 24, 2009
Solar cells are a form of biomimicry of plants in that they convert sunlight into energy.The plant world offers up a vast array of shapes,sizes, colors, and styles from which designers can create their cool,crazy and creatively mimicked solar powered concepts. Check out some of the amazing solar power creations inspired by their flora counterparts.
Ford to Convert Auto Plant to Clean Tech Manufacturing
Posted by admin in Business & Finance on September 14, 2009
One of the automaker’s oldest and largest plants, shuttered in 2007, will be converted to making solar panel and energy storage technologies, and could create as many as 4,000 jobs.
Sea Slug Eats Algae and Becomes Plant-Like
Posted by admin in Pets & Animals on July 31, 2009
After two weeks of a strict algae-only diet, a one-inch, green sea slug species was somehow able to incorporate the plants chloroplasts (the cell-like organelles that trap solar energy and convert it to sugar), and then live out the rest of their single-year lives without eating.
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