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ABSTRACT
The generation of renewable electricity is becoming increasingly cost-effective and efficient so that a different set of challenges have arisen that need to be overcome. The most pressing of these is the development of viable, ‘green’ ways to store this energy as carbon- carbon bonds. Natural photosynthesis provides a ready blue print for the conversion of solar energy into carbohydrate, i.e., a fuel composed of carbon-carbon bonds. Natural photosynthesis is too complicated and its components too fragile ever to be copied in an artificial context. Natural photosynthesis, however, does provide many templates that can be mimicked in any future bioinspired version of artificial photosynthesis, such as the oxygen evolving complex and the enzyme RuBisCO. Many options will need to be explored to find the best ways to achieve artificial photosynthesis and to achieve it will require a large-scale, coordinated international effort. There is simply no time left to continue in the way we are now. Climate change needs to be stopped as soon as possible and the clock is ticking for us to .make clean, renewable solar fuels We must all now work together!
INTRODUCTION
Climate change is a global problem that requires a co-ordinated, ambitious and large scale research program to halt or, indeed, to reverse it. The evidence, accumulated over the past few years, is now overwhelming and clearly shows that this problem has been caused by mankind’s unrestrained consumption of fossil fuels. The realisation of this central point is the reason so many countries came together last year (2016) in Paris, under the auspices of the United Nations, to develop an ambitious plan to combat climate change. It is, however, often difficult to persuade countries that they should allow their own research funding to be spent on transnational research projects where they would also be paying for research carried out by foreign scientists working outside the funding country’s borders. This requires the funding countries to put aside narrow self-interest and to have the confidence that these funded projects are the optimal ones to solve the problem, in this case to mitigate climate change.
Year: ۲۰۱۸
Publisher : ELSEVIER
By : Richard J. Cogdell, Alastair T. Gardiner, Nao Yukihira, Hideki Hashimoto
File Information: English Language/ 28 Page / size: 909 KB
سال : ۱۳۹۶
ناشر : ELSEVIER
کاری از : ریچارد J. Cogdell، Alastair T. گاردینر، Nao Yukihira، Hideki Hashimoto
اطلاعات فایل : زبان انگلیسی / 28 صفحه / حجم : KB 909
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