Such cellulosic ethanol from native plants would also require technological breakthroughs to efficiently
convert plant leaves, stems and other inedible parts into fuel.
Not exact matches
How do I
convert the Stevia
plant leaves in a recipe?
A novel nanobionic approach has been developed that imparts higher photosynthetic activity to
plant leaves and extracted
plant chloroplasts, the biological organelles that
convert captured carbon dioxide into solar energy.
The mechanism mimics how
plants convert sunlight into energy, hence «
leaf.»
When a photon strikes an electron in a
leaf, the electron delivers it to another molecule dubbed the reaction center, which
converts that light into chemical energy to feed the
plant.
Plants take up CO2 through their
leaves and, when they die,
leave part of it in their roots, where it remains and is
converted to other forms of life; that makes soil a giant carbon sink.
Such a system is also called an artificial
leaf or solar - fuel generator because in many ways it mimics the process which
plants use to
convert sunlight and CO2 into oxygen and fuel (sugars, carbohydrates).
«It's similar to a
plant leaf that
converts carbon dioxide and water with sunlight into sugar molecules and biomass, but it's a nonbiological engineered system.»
Large
plants break into grass
leaves, sticks protruding from the earth are
converted into broken branches, and the ground can be condensed into collectible cubes of dirt.
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The work recalls the bloody history of indigo
planting in Bengal, when the British turned farmers from food to indigo cultivation, offering loans at interest rates that
left farmers, forced to
convert their crop, in debt.
A Post-Minimalist synthesis of nature and technology, Fujieda's piece was created by measuring the electrical impulses on the
leaves of
plants and
converting the data into sound with a visual programming language.
Through photosynthesis,
plants convert carbon dioxide, water and sunlight into the fuel they need to grow, locking up carbon in their branches, stems and
leaves in the process.