{"id":15339,"date":"2017-09-13T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalgoodnessmedia.com\/?p=15339"},"modified":"2019-08-15T14:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T19:44:19","slug":"youth-today-2017-election-changed-uks-political-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalgoodness.ca\/en\/youth-today-2017-election-changed-uks-political-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"An artificial photosynthesis can produce clean fuel for the Cars of tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>An artificial photosynthesis can produce clean fuel for the Cars of tomorrow<\/h2>\n<p>Photosynthesis\u00a0is an essential natural process that keeps\u00a0not just plants, but just about everything else on Earth alive including us. When plants convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates, they feed themselves and emit oxygen for us to breathe. But what if we took a page out of nature\u2019s book, and figured out how to use sunlight to produce hydrogen for fuel? \u201cIf it works it would be magical,\u201d Bill Gates told Reuters, \u201cbecause with liquids you don\u2019t have the intermittency problem batteries. You can put the liquid into a big tank and burn it whenever you want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Artificial photosynthesis (AP) aims to split water in oceans, and possibly even rivers, into its hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon components using sunlight. Hydrogen produced via AP is readily usable in the fuel cells of <span class=\"wp-glossary wpg-tooltip\" data-termid=\"73285\" data-content=\"full\" data-qtipstyle=\"dark\" data-hasqtip=\"0\">electric cars<\/span> being manufactured right now, and it can also be used to store solar energy. Liquid fuels like hydrogen have a distinct advantage over batteries, as they are lighter and less bulky.<\/p>\n<p>Combining the fruits of AP in the right proportions produces methanol, which can fuel combustion <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15340 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/globalgoodnessmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Unknown-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/>engines. China has become the largest consumer of methanol in the world, blending it with gas at levels of 15 percent or less for consumer vehicles at gas stations, and running transit vehicles on blends as high as 85 percent methanol.<\/p>\n<p>The main challenge presented by AP is that photosynthesis in nature is inefficient. Plants convert only about 1 percent of carbon and water into carbohydrates. That efficiency has increased to about 10 percent in the lab, however, and researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, have hit a level of 22 percent efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Gates ever an advocate for new energy technologies in general and AP in particular has founded the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a global coalition of private investors who intend to supplement government-funded research into clean energy with seed money. He sees development of new forms of energy such as AP an imperative, and hopes that disrupting the energy sector will prompt these kinds of discoveries and positive changes. \u201cWe need to surprise them that these alternative ways of doing energy can come along and come along in an economic way,\u201d he told Big Think. \u201cIf we are to avoid the levels of warming that are dangerous we need to move at full speed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Source<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/bill-gates-artificial-photosynthesis-can-produce-clean-fuel-for-the-cars-of-tomorrow\/\">Futurism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Photograph<\/span>: \u00a9 Unsplash<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[wpedon id=&#8221;29922&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial photosynthesis can produce clean fuel for the Cars of tomorrow Photosynthesis\u00a0is an essential natural process that keeps\u00a0not just plants, but just about everything else on Earth alive including us. 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