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Scientists Create an Artificial “Leaf” That Turns CO₂ Into Useful Products
Scitech Daily ^ | November 04, 2025 | University of Cambridge

Posted on 11/04/2025 8:15:20 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 11/04/2025 8:15:20 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Why do certain people think they can replace something better than what God already created?


2 posted on 11/04/2025 8:23:55 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Red Badger

Couldn’t you just turn existing biomass into synthesis gas?

https://mevaenergy.com/biosyngas/


3 posted on 11/04/2025 8:25:15 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Red Badger

I kinda thought O2 was useful, but what do I know?


4 posted on 11/04/2025 8:26:03 AM PST by small farm girl
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To: Red Badger

It’s called a tree.


5 posted on 11/04/2025 8:27:29 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: small farm girl

I just use it for breathing ....................


6 posted on 11/04/2025 8:28:14 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Always an interesting observation how mankind always has and always is, constantly trying to fabricate mechanical means that imitate nature. Trying to match God I suppose one could say...


7 posted on 11/04/2025 8:30:07 AM PST by know.your.why
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To: Red Badger

How about oxygen? I real trees do it better.


8 posted on 11/04/2025 8:32:41 AM PST by Judge Bean
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To: Red Badger

but the real leaves need the CO2


9 posted on 11/04/2025 8:32:55 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Red Badger

Very useful.


10 posted on 11/04/2025 8:33:15 AM PST by Judge Bean
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11 posted on 11/04/2025 8:33:40 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

When they remove all the CO2 they’ll find out WE NEED CO2 to survive ,LOL


12 posted on 11/04/2025 8:34:39 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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What about wood? And O2?

Leaves are self generated and self recycled 🤷🏼‍♂️


13 posted on 11/04/2025 8:35:18 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: Red Badger
I have to laugh. They are using organic semiconductors which are CARBON-BASED materials to "de-fossilize" the industry. Where will they get the carbon to make their organic semiconductors?

The entire effort to rid the industry of carbon depends on...wait for it...CARBON.

14 posted on 11/04/2025 8:35:58 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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15 posted on 11/04/2025 8:38:30 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Have you seen the price of diamonds lately?

You can get ‘lab created’ diamonds cheap as hell...............


16 posted on 11/04/2025 8:40:20 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv; Larry Lucido
The researchers have designed a hybrid system that joins light-absorbing organic polymers with bacterial enzymes to transform sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into formate——a clean fuel that can drive other chemical reactions.

To think it all started with a semi-permeable, non-nutritive cereal varnish.

Now look where we are today!

17 posted on 11/04/2025 8:47:04 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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“You can get ‘lab created’ diamonds cheap as hell...............”

there are no diamonds in hell, carbon burns


18 posted on 11/04/2025 8:48:05 AM PST by algore
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19 posted on 11/04/2025 8:49:34 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: Red Badger

Well there we go- now we can take out the CO2 and plunge right into another ice age


20 posted on 11/04/2025 8:50:21 AM PST by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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