new photosynthesis Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 25 Aug 2015 06:35:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Scientists Use Photosynthesis as Source of Solar Energy https://www.greenoptimistic.com/photosynthesis-solar-power/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/photosynthesis-solar-power/#respond Tue, 25 Aug 2015 06:35:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56316 Australian researchers have found a new way to use a very old source of solar energy. Plants have been converting sunlight into energy for millions of years, and the team at Monash University in Melbourne have built a device that can do the same thing. The photosynthetic device is even more efficient than traditional solar […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/photosynthesis-solar-power/feed/ 0 56316 A New Research Center to Develop Methods of Generating Fuel from Sunlight https://www.greenoptimistic.com/california-research-center-fuel-sunlight-20100727/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/california-research-center-fuel-sunlight-20100727/#respond Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:07:44 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=8784 A new research center in California is about to be established after the U.S. Department of Energy has invested $122 million. Researchers from the new center will try to find ways of generating fuels made by using sunlight. The project will be led by a team of researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Caltech.

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