plant photosynthesis Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:07:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Trying to Use Nocturnal Photosynthesis to Produce Biofuels More Efficiently https://www.greenoptimistic.com/trying-to-use-nocturnal-photosynthesis-to-produce-biofuels-more-efficiently-20121002/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/trying-to-use-nocturnal-photosynthesis-to-produce-biofuels-more-efficiently-20121002/#respond Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:07:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26349 The U.S Department of Energy has recently provided funding for development of a new strain of a popular tree species that can perform nocturnal photosynthesis. The sum of $14 million has been given to a team of biofuel researchers led by the University of Nevada. The project is called “Engineering CAM Photosynthetic Machinery into Bioenergy […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/trying-to-use-nocturnal-photosynthesis-to-produce-biofuels-more-efficiently-20121002/feed/ 0 26349 Plants vs Solar Cells: Which is The Most Efficient Energy Converter? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/plants-vs-solar-cells-20110520/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/plants-vs-solar-cells-20110520/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 18:26:45 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18733 Both solar cells and plants process sunlight one way or the other, but there's a catch: one of them is more efficient. Guided by common sense, we'd say that the plants' billions of years of "experience" in capturing and storing energy will win. Is it so?

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