photosynthesis

The May 14th issue of The New Yorker magazine has 3 very interesting articles. One, by David Owen, describes the work of Daniel Nocera, and his work on a new approach to electrolysis, with a boron catalyst. Its a lot like a pv panel, except it stashes H2 instead of charging a battery, and is...

Human fotosintesis: Sunlight +Melanin + water = new kind of solar cell? A friend of mine told me that a Mexican scientist with the name "Arturo Solís Herrera" have found proof of "human fotosintesis" :rolleyes: so I started looking for something like that on Google... And I found a story...

I was speaking to a friend of mine about photovoltaic cell chemistry, and to be honest the majority of it went way over my head, but the issue of efficiency came up. As I was able to comprehend it, the issue is that once the electrons get bumped around by the incoming photons, the resultant...

I'm reading the book "Solar" by Ian McEwan (a good book BTW) where the main character, a Noble Prize Winner, develops an artificial photosynthesis prototype. Yes, it's a work of fiction, but I am curious whether this is a possible future power source. Wikipedia doesn't have a lot of detail...

I thought this was interesting. Does anyone know anymore about this? Are there any botanists who might be able to shed more light, so to speak, regarding this? /I am sorry if this has already been posted.