algae solar cells Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:02:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Green Algae Modified to Act as Photovoltaic Cells Power a Clock https://www.greenoptimistic.com/green-algae-solar-cells-20100908/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/green-algae-solar-cells-20100908/#respond Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:02:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10089 Algae and photosynthetic bacteria could also be exploited to generate electricity, besides jellyfish. University of Cambridge researchers let by Adrian Fisher and Paolo Bombelli study how they could use the two fore-mentioned to actually generate usable energy.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/green-algae-solar-cells-20100908/feed/ 0 10089 Photoprotein Found in Marine Bacteria Could Improve Solar Cells https://www.greenoptimistic.com/proteorhodopsin-algae-solar-cells-20100503/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/proteorhodopsin-algae-solar-cells-20100503/#respond Mon, 03 May 2010 14:06:13 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7535 The open-access journal PLos Biology presented a novel finding by a team of researchers from the Univeristy of Linnaeus, in Sweden, and colleagues from Spain, explaining how oceanic bacteria harvests light energy from sunlight by using a unique photoprotein.

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