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Clean fuel from 'bionic leaf' could ease pressure on farmland: scientists
2016-06-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A new clean technology to turn sunlight into liquid fuel could drastically shrink the need for large plantations to grow crops for biofuels, while combating climate change, Harvard University researchers said on Thursday. That could help protect food supplies and local people's land rights, they suggested. Dubbed "bionic leaf 2.0", the technology uses solar panels to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, the scientists said in a study published in the journal Science. Once separated,...
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