plant energy harvesting Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:34:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Astounding Discovery: Marine Algae Using Quantum Mechanics Principles for Light Harvesting https://www.greenoptimistic.com/algae-quantum-mechanics-20100204/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/algae-quantum-mechanics-20100204/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:34:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6467 Professor Greg Scholes, the lead author of the study published recently in Nature, says: "There's been a lot of excitement and speculation that nature may be using quantum mechanical practices. Our latest experiments show that normally functioning biological systems have the capacity to use quantum mechanics in order to optimize a process as essential to their survival as photosynthesis."

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