A new method of using the machinery of photosynthesis to make methane is 10 times more efficient than previous attempts.
A new method of artificial photosynthesis could get humans one step closer to using the machinery of plants to make fuels.
"The biggest challenge many people don’t realize is that even nature has no solution for the amount of energy we use," University of Chicago chemist Wenbin Lin, one of the authors of the new study, said in a statement. Natural photosynthesis, while sufficient for plants to feed themselves, falls short of providing the quantity of energy required to fuel our homes, cities and nations."We will have to do better than nature, and that’s scary," he said.
Though combusting this synthetic methane would still lead to greenhouse gas emissions, researchers are also working on using artificial photosynthesis to make hydrogen fuels, which release only water vapor and warm air.To do this, they began with a metal-organic framework — a web made of charged metal atoms linked by organic molecules.
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