Inside Caltech’s Jorgensen Laboratory, Hollister UK Outlethowever, more than 80 researchers are putting a lot of effort into doing the leaf’s job using silicon, nickel, iron and any number of other materials that would be more at home inside a cell phone than a plant cell. Their gleaming new labs are the headquarters of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a 190 person researchHollister Outlet UK programme funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) with US$116 million over five years. The centre’s goal is to use sunlight to make hydrogen and other fuels much more efficiently than real leaves ever made biomass.
The researchers are pursuing this Hollister Outlet goal with a certain urgency. Roughly 13% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide come from transportation, so phasing out polluting fuels is a key environmental target. One approach is to replace cars and light trucks with electric vehicles charged by solar cells or wind but that cannot tackle the whole problem. Nathan Lewis, an inorganic chemist at Caltech http://www.sigint.co.uk/ and JCAP’s scientific director, says that some 40% of current global transportation cannot be electrified. For example, barring a major breakthrough, there will never be a plug in hybrid plane: no craft could hold enough batteries. Liquid fuels are unbeatable when it comes to convenience combined with compact energy storage.
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