Sentences with phrase «energy by photosynthesis»

I'd point out that humanity has always depended on what you call a «low quality» energy source for all of our food — which is solar energy transformed into chemical energy by photosynthesis.

Secular Animist: «I'd point out that humanity has always depended on what you call a «low quality» energy source for all of our food — which is solar energy transformed into chemical energy by photosynthesis.»

Like plants on land, phytoplankton produce energy by photosynthesis, pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fuel the process.

Adult corals of the species Pocillopora damicornis get most of their nutrition from symbiotic algae that live inside them, providing metabolic energy by photosynthesis.

They are the first known organisms to derive energy by photosynthesis while living in an environment naturally devoid of sunlight.

Not exact matches

This means that the energy consumption and carbon footprint of marijuana growers would go way down, as the light the plants need for photosynthesis could be provided more naturally by the sun.

Purdue University physicists are part of an international group using spinach to study the proteins involved in photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert the sun's energy into carbohydrates used to power cellular processes.

Its discovery upended one of biology's core tenets: That all life essentially depends on the energy of the sun, either by using sunlight for photosynthesis or by munching photosynthesizing organisms.

Like us, they get their energy by consuming other life forms rather than by photosynthesis.

One way of making these processes cleaner is by using light energy, similar to how photosynthesis operates in nature.

Nitrogen helps plants produce proteins, including the key molecules that control photosynthesis, the process by which the sun's energy is captured and converted into the carbon compounds that are the raw material for growth.

Photosynthesis, the process by which plants, algae, and select bacteria convert the sun's light energy into chemical energy, takes place in a cellular organelle called the chloroplast.

«Unlike most plants that get energy through photosynthesis, dodder siphons off water and nutrients from other plants by connecting itself to the host vascular system using structures called haustoria.

Scientists are learning to mimic nature to produce clean energy, by re-creating photosynthesis in the lab.

Professor Henry said photosynthesis — the process by which plants converted sunlight into energy for growth and produce oxygen — was arguably the most important biological process on earth.

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants convert energy from the sunlight into chemical energy in the form of sugars.

Professor Colin Osborne, lead author of the study and Associate Director of the University's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, said: «Photosynthesis powers most life on Earth because it converts solar energy into sugars which are used by plants to grow.

Lead author Nigel D'Souza, then a postdoctoral researcher at Lamont, discovered the phytoplankton response to oil seeps while on a ship in the Gulf of Mexico monitoring chlorophyll fluorescence — energy that is emitted as light by compounds inside phytoplankton cells used for photosynthesis.

* Correction, 3 January, 2:45 p.m.: This article has been modified to reflect the fact that not all life on Earth gets its energy from either photosynthesis or by eating other life forms.

Exciton diffusion is also a basic mechanism underlying photosynthesis: Plants absorb energy from photons, and this energy is transferred by excitons to areas where it can be stored in chemical form for later use in supporting the plant's metabolism.

In the traditional view of photosynthesis, the energy carried by photons streaming from the sun is transferred by bouncing from one chlorophyll molecule to the next, a process that ultimately builds simple carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide.

Plants carry out photosynthesis by converting photons of light striking their chromophores into another form of energy known as an exciton.

Everyone who took high school biology learned that photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and select bacteria transform the Sun's energy into chemical energy during the daytime.

OCO - 2 will also closely monitor the carbon uptake of plants by measuring the weak fluorescence that is produced during photosynthesis as plants» chlorophyll pigments absorb light to capture energy and subsequently re-emit photons at longer wavelengths.

A new catalyst created by U of T Engineering researchers brings them one step closer to artificial photosynthesis — a system that, just like plants, would use renewable energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into stored chemical energy.

During this 499th Brookhaven Lecture, Dmitry Polyansky explains how artificial photosynthesis — inspired by plants» natural ability to convert sunlight to usable energy — can help meet future energy demands.

The bacteria also supply the energy required by the enzymes — by performing photosynthesis.

Most plants rely on photosynthesis, a process by which they transform energy from the sun into chemical energy that serves as a nutrient source.

This work is supported by the Materials Project Predictive Modeling Center and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis through the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, under Contract No.

Resume: Photocatalytic CO2 reduction to solar fuels by artificial photosynthesis is an attractive and effective research area to solve the energy crisis as well as anthropogenic greenhouse emission problems from CO2 emission.

Photocatalytic CO2 reduction to solar fuels by artificial photosynthesis is an attractive and effective research area to solve the energy crisis as well as anthropogenic greenhouse emission problems from CO2 emission.

A crucial piece of the puzzle behind nature's ability to split the water molecule during photosynthesis that could help advance the development of artificial photosynthesis for clean, green and renewable energy has been provided by an international collaboration of scientists led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

For example, carbon dioxide, the dominant form of carbon in the atmosphere and associated with climate change, is used by plants to generate energy via photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis is the process used by plants and organisms to convert light energy into stored chemical energy used to fuel their own needs.

So, by increasing photosynthesis on earth by one - third, as much additional energy will be absorbed by plants as is released by all human activity.

Abstract: Charge separation is a key component of the reactions cascade of photosynthesis, by which solar energy is converted to chemical energy.

The Solar Energy Research Center, which is expected to be complete by the end of 2014, will have approximately 40,000 square feet of space to house the northern branch of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, among other smaller labs.

Prof. Su's current research fields include the design, the synthesis, the property study and the molecular engineering of nanostructures and highly organized and hierarchically self - assembled porous materials, bio-integrated living and bio-inspired materials including leaf - like materials by the immobilization of living organisms and biomaterials for catalysis, photocatalysis, CO2 reduction and water splitting, artificial photosynthesis, nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, energy storage and conversion, cell therapy and biomedical applications.

The energy stored in petroleum and other fossil fuels was originally converted from sunlight by photosynthesis in the distant past.

Because silver damages key enzymes involved in energy metabolism, even low concentrations can cut photosynthesis and growth rates by a half in just 15 minutes.

Climate is driven largely by energy from the sun, and the manner in which this incoming solar radiation is reflected, absorbed, transformed (as in photosynthesis), or re-radiated (as heat).

Bringing everything together, Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Laureate for Chemistry and our Past President, talks on BBC World News about the future of renewable energy and how advances in harvesting the energy of the sun, such as organic solar cells and artificial photosynthesis, are being inspired by nature.

But just to simplify, it is in these fireworks inside the mitochondria, where the oxygen we breathe may get a hold of an electron we ate that was pumped with energy by plants (thanks to photosynthesis), and transform that oxygen molecule into what's called superoxide, which can damage our delicate cellular machinery — oxidize our cellular machinery.

The transition from deeply rooted energy systems based on burning fossil fuels to new norms emitting ever less of this gas — here and in China — is seen by many as requiring a sustained energy quest including much greater direct government investment on the frontiers of relevant technologies (batteries, photovoltaics, superconductivity, photosynthesis).]

Allowing for that falling on the oceans, and further decline due to angle of incidence as distance from equator increases, less the amount required by vegetation for photosynthesis, we are left with how much energy for conversion of solar radiation to heat / electricity / catalytic reaction to other fuels?

In other words, the goal should be the absolute elimination of fossil fuels as an energy source, and their replacement by sunlight, wind, and photosynthesis - based technologies.

This includes the energy trapped by photosynthesis, the majority that is not re-radiated, plus energy that is prevented from re-radiating back by reflecting from cloud cover or aerosols, absorbed by GHGs, and other mechanisms.

I'll be talking with three scientists working to shake America out of its long, and bipartisan, slumber party on energy innovation and get to work — the physics Nobelist Burton Richter, Martin Hoffert, a professor emeritus of physics at New York University, and Nathan Lewis, a chemist at the California Institute of Technology who heads the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, one of three «innovation hubs» created (so far) by the Department of Eenergy innovation and get to work — the physics Nobelist Burton Richter, Martin Hoffert, a professor emeritus of physics at New York University, and Nathan Lewis, a chemist at the California Institute of Technology who heads the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, one of three «innovation hubs» created (so far) by the Department of EnergyEnergy.

The idea that you could ever replace the rate of utilization of energy from fossil fuels, which has been estimated as consuming 400 years worth of photosynthesis per year, with a fraction of the annual photosynthetic harvest that does not impinge on food production is part of today's magical thinking, along with reducing deficits by cutting taxes while continuing to increase spending.

There are other paths being pursued in the early days of the energy quest — including those followed by Nathan Lewis on the frontiers of photovoltaics or Daniel Nocera, with his effort to deconstruct photosynthesis.