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Carbon Dioxide Snatched From The Air

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It’s the reason why chemists envy green plants: by using photosynthesis, plants can easily fix the carbon dioxide that is so plentiful in air to make biomass, or organic compounds.
Chemists would also like to be able to simply produce carbon compounds out of CO2 from air. In contrast to the [...]

Ultimate In ‘Green’ Energy: Plants Inspire New Generation Of Solar Cells

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The ability of plants to turn sunlight into energy through photosynthesis has been successfully mimicked by scientists at the University of Southampton to produce a new generation of solar cells.

The Southampton team led by Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis of the University’s School of Physics and Astronomy, has developed a new range of photovoltaic devices [...]

Bacteria Power: Future For Clean Energy Lies In ‘Big Bang’ Of Evolution

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Amid mounting agreement that future clean, “carbon-neutral”, energy will rely on efficient conversion of the sun’s light energy into fuels and electric power, attention is focusing on one of the most ancient groups of organism, the cyanobacteria.
Dramatic progress has been made over the last decade understanding the fundamental reaction of photosynthesis that [...]

Algae: Biofuel Of The Future?

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In the world of alternative fuels, there may be nothing greener than pond scum.
Algae are tiny biological factories that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy so efficiently that they can double their weight several times a day.
As part of the photosynthesis process algae produce oil and can generate [...]