Scientists have found a way to extract energy from photosynthesis | DW News

Scientists led by Cambridge University have found a way to extract energy from photosynthesis. The research published in the journal Nature into a photosynthetic bacteria called cyanobacteria could lead to a new source of clean energy.

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[casecoffea]

DW - please always link to the source of their research for those interested.

[UaYXxB]

I found the explanation of how this process occurs (and could be exploited) extremely nebulous. Consequently I'm skeptical, ... I'd need to hear this explained in a more detailed and lucid way, at least by drawing parallels/analogies to flesh it out.

[JavenarchX]

"Why haven't learnt to replicate photosynthesis" was my question to my highschool teacher 28 years ago. I should have gone on to research this

[emil]

1:30 - Plants do not absorb 100% of visible light. Their leaves would be dark if they did. Rather, the leaves scatter mostly green wavelenths, giving them their green colour.

[midishh]

Scientist walk into a bar...and they conceptualize a new method to extract energy 😊 nice!

[CZack]

Great research!! The application of Flora Photosynthesis in powering electronic devices could produce renewable clean energy. Imagine very cheap Solar Panel arrays that absorb 100% of photon light energy.

[stefanbeuningenvan]

Looks quite similar to the technology by Plant-e/ Living Light that harvests power from plants by so called microbial fuel cell (also research of the 'mud battery' is probably similar to this). Was presented in a paper in 2012, but making panels out of it is a very interesting thought.

[galaxysmartphone]

What an amazing discovery , 🎉Congratulations to the Scientists who have achieved this

[izgvvob]

Let's hope that this process can be developed successfully.

[AD-zovp]

Would be nice to have the link to the publication in the comments!!! Thx 😊

[bitninja]

Please put this into the public domain before some large corporations buy it and hide it away, never to be seen again.

[caskaptein]

Can we get a source of the literature in description please?

[playerformerlyknownasmousecop]

Why report on this at such an early stage of research? There's no indication that it even has a positive EROI..

[Miamcoline]

What an incredible discovery! I thought we were 20-30 years from something like this!

[selfdefencetraining]

Is there any detail study material on Google

[gregorymoilwa]

I would love to read the research paper on this❤

[dotsdot]

as it so happens, listening to this while watering my plants! 👁️👄👁️ 🪴

[soulbeats]

Awesome!
Also: Lasers are amazing scientific instruments

[nkululekomolokomme]

Hey... I had something similar to this😮.
Really sucks not having infrastructure and aid for such explorations.

[jacquescousteau]

Some of the explanations in this are incorrect. While the plants' photosynthetic organelles, the chloroplasts, can convert almost 100% of the light they absorb, the plant doesn't use 100% of visible light. Especially green light is not used in photosynthesis and is reflected, and because of that most photosynthetic plants are green.