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This is a great discovery. Can you imagine future metropolises powered by trees and plants? That would be simply amazing!!! "It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God." R. Gordon Wasson
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This is incredible! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. Thanks for posting! 
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Indeed this technology is incredible... All though only time will tell once they have perfected the implementation whether it will be integrated within the foundation of our society. Much Peace and Understanding
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Amazing! Biotechnology like this could be a game changer. You can't argue with the process, as it is has been tried, tested and honed through evolution over an incomprehensible amount time, so I'm very much in favour of meeting Nature half way. Interesting and really positive, thanks for sharing. 
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Such encouraging and beautiful news Great for a new year, thanks for sharing Aegle. "The Menu is Not The Meal." - Alan Watts
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Bancopuma wrote:Amazing! Biotechnology like this could be a game changer. You can't argue with the process, as it is has been tried, tested and honed through evolution over an incomprehensible amount time, so I'm very much in favour of meeting Nature half way. Interesting and really positive, thanks for sharing. Photosynthesis (while awesome) is still, like most biological systems, woefully inefficient. It's better than anything we've developed, but I think the ultimate goal would be to use the chemical process of photosynthesis as a jumping off point for some even more effective method of harnessing the energy of the sun. Blessings ~ND "There are many paths up the same mountain."
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Wouldn't routing away energy for ourselves from the plant prevent the plant from receiving any kind of nutrition or energy for itself essentially? Wouldn't this put us in a parasitic role in relation to the plants? "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb
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nice. yea, this was an idea tossed around for a while now. it's well known in plant biology/chemistry that the thylakoids in chloroplasts operate very similar to the photocells in solar panels, i.e. electron transport. really glad they finally devised models to verify that, real green energy. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah
"Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck
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Elpo wrote:This is a great discovery.
Can you imagine future metropolises powered by trees and plants? That would be simply amazing!!!
..my thoughts exactly.. thanks Aegle for posting
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Global wrote:Wouldn't routing away energy for ourselves from the plant prevent the plant from receiving any kind of nutrition or energy for itself essentially? Wouldn't this put us in a parasitic role in relation to the plants? Global Indeed I understand where you are coming from the technology would be counter productive if the amount of energy harnessed from the plant was harmful and detrimental to the plant. If the plant died to quickly due to lack of nutrition our ability to harness energy from the plant would cease and in turn it would create a unproductive system. For the technology to reach its full potential the energy taken from the plants would have to be done in a sustainable way so that the plants could live for as long as possible, ultimately creating a productive system. So the ideal situation would be for the process to be a symbiotic one, whether this is possible remains to be seen as the technology is in its infancy but the potential is there. Much Peace and Understanding
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No worries, I am really glad that I came across the article and was able to share it with you guys... its an extremely exciting discovery. ♥ Much Peace and Happiness
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Aegle wrote:Global wrote:Wouldn't routing away energy for ourselves from the plant prevent the plant from receiving any kind of nutrition or energy for itself essentially? Wouldn't this put us in a parasitic role in relation to the plants? Global Indeed I understand where you are coming from the technology would be counter productive if the amount of energy harnessed from the plant was harmful and detrimental to the plant. If the plant died to quickly due to lack of nutrition our ability to harness energy from the plant would cease and in turn it would create a unproductive system. For the technology to reach its full potential the energy taking from the plants would have to be done in a sustainable way so that the plants could live for as long as possible, ultimately creating a productive system. So the ideal situation would be for the process to be a symbiotic one, whether this is possible remains to be seen as the technology is in its infancy but the potential is there. Much Peace and Understanding Makes sense. I hope the people behind the technology keep this in mind. "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb
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I could see algae applications being prominent, since regeneration of the cells is relatively rapid. Algae was likely the original plant form to develop the photosynthesis process. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah
"Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck
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Global  Much Peace and Happiness
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benzyme wrote:I could see algae applications being prominent, since regeneration of the cells is relatively rapid. Algae was likely the original plant form to develop the photosynthesis process. Benzyme I couldn't agree with you more... Much Peace and Respect
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Global wrote:Wouldn't routing away energy for ourselves from the plant prevent the plant from receiving any kind of nutrition or energy for itself essentially? Wouldn't this put us in a parasitic role in relation to the plants? That's where genetic engineering comes in. If you can make the plants more efficient, you can leave them enough energy to thrive, and siphon the rest off. "There are many paths up the same mountain."
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this is just recalling my second grade science class, but doesn't the plant cycle create carbon dioxide in the day during photosynthesis (and oxygen at night)? So how much CO2 would this add to the atmosphere? WHOA!
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pau wrote:this is just recalling my second grade science class, but doesn't the plant cycle create carbon dioxide in the day during photosynthesis (and oxygen at night)? So how much CO2 would this add to the atmosphere? I may be mistaken, but I believe they uptake CO2 during photosynthesis and release oxygen as a byproduct whereas we inhale said oxygen and release CO2. "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb
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Told ya. Didn't I tell ya? I'm the genius that waits for everyone else to materialize my BRILLIANT ideas Art Van D'lay wrote:Smoalk. It. And. See.
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