Photovoltaic Cell from Plant Proteins 36
TheSync writes "FuturePundit has a story about work at MIT to develop a photovoltaic cell from spinach chloroplast proteins to generate electricity. These cells convert 12% of the light energy into electricity, and researchers hope to reach 20% efficiency, better than commercial silicon solar cells."
Amazed it didn't happen sooner. (Score:2, Insightful)
And now a scientist has worked out how to do it as well using plant protiens. Wow.
I'm frankly amazed this didn't come much sooner. Especially with the genetic technologies they're playing with these days.
Re:Amazed it didn't happen sooner. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Amazed it didn't happen sooner. (Score:2, Insightful)
So the combination of silicon production abilities, and plant-cell growth efficiency, and a little of Moore and more... might give us extremely more powerful, much cheaper to produce, solar cells.
Hope so, anyway. I'd much rather be invading a country for their spinach than their oil.