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GaryN
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by GaryN » Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:47 pm
New Self-Assembling Photovoltaic Technology Repairs Itself.
The system Strano's team produced is made up of seven different compounds, including the carbon nanotubes, the phospholipids, and the proteins that make up the reaction centers, which under the right conditions spontaneously assemble themselves into a light-harvesting structure that produces an electric current. Strano says he believes this sets a record for the complexity of a self-assembling system.
One step closer to an end to oil dependency. And, records are made to be broken.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 161908.htmIn order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. -Buckminster Fuller
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Goldminer
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by Goldminer » Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:07 pm
From your article: "But plants have adopted an interesting strategy to address this issue: They constantly break down their light-capturing molecules and reassemble them from scratch, so the basic structures that capture the sun's energy are, in effect, always brand new."
I tried this idea on myself, but instead of becoming "in effect, always brand new," I remain broken down. Laying in the Sun makes it worse, but it feels good. Long live vitamin D!
I sense a disturbance in the farce.
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