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• n  synthesis of compounds with the aid of radiant energy (especially in plants)

• The mainspring of life is photosynthesis, the process by which plants manufacture food out of carbon dioxide-and water under the influence of sunlight.
• For the first time, man had triggered photosynthesis without using light.
• Underneath the ice, they were deprived of light to run photosynthesis, and instead they relied on what they found around them principally sulfur and iron to generate energy.

News & Articles

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• Photosynthetic solar power
  A research team in California has produced a system that can be used for artificial photosynthesis system as well as others. It seems likely that such a system will finally be able to produce the promised carbon neutral energy that we need in large quantities at low cost, in order to cool down the rapidly-warming planet.
  June 11, 2013 - EARTHtimes.org
• Testing artificial photosynthesis: Fully integrated microfluidic test-bed for solar-driven electrochemical energy ...
  Researchers have developed the first fully integrated microfluidic test-bed for evaluating and optimizing solar-driven electrochemical energy conversion systems. This test-bed system has already been used to study schemes for photovoltaic electrolysis of water, and can be readily adapted to study proposed artificial photosynthesis and fuel cell technologies.
  June 10, 2013 - Science Daily
• Testing artificial photosynthesis
  ( DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ) Berkeley Lab researchers, working at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, have developed the first fully integrated microfluidic test-bed for evaluating and optimizing solar-driven electrochemical energy conversion systems. This test-bed system has already been used to study schemes for photovoltaic electrolysis of water, and can be ...
  June 10, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Isaac Asimov in Discover Magazine (blog)
  Isaac Asimov responded in a letter to the editor that he had read my column "with puzzlement:. How does [Lewenstein] expect to do that? Does he want us to explain that photosynthesis works by magic? That if we pray hard every night a cancer will...
• Dusty Baker in MLB.com
  One thing I figured out is I never saw the speed of photosynthesis that happened there,said Baker, a California native. "We can leave in two weeks, no leaves on the trees, no ivy on the wall, and we come back and there's green everywhere....
• Tulloch in The Australian
  The Dyesol group is the world leader in development and commercialisation of third-generation photovoltaics -- solar cells that mimic nature -- based on the principles of photosynthesis and nanotechnology,Sylvia Tulloch explains. "These...