Growing Plants to Power Our Engines and Feed the World [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 333.78 *Recreational and wilderness areas
• Thông tin xuất bản: Los Alamos, N.M. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2015
• Mô tả vật lý: Other: 00:01:41 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 264722
• Chủ đề: 1. 09 biomass fuels; 2. Crop productivity; 3. Crop variety; 4. Genetic diversity; 5. Photosynthetic efficiency

Tóm tắt

Photosynthesis uses light from the sun and carbon dioxide from the air to make chemicals that can be converted into energy-rich biofuels. Plants, however, transform less than five percent of the solar energy they capture into harvestable chemical energy. The New Mexico Consortium and Los Alamos National Laboratory are working on strategies to improve the energy yield in algae and plant systems, resulting in more fuel in our tanks and more food on our plates, without releasing additional carbon into the atmosphere.