Apparently it is already possible to produce in laboratory conditions photochemical systems capable of conducting processes of artificial photosynthesis?
Will the construction of photochemical systems capable of conducting processes of artificial photosynthesis reduce in the future the excessive emission of greenhouse gases and protect the Earth, natural ecosystems and humans against the growing cry of accelerating the global warning process and the potential negative effects of increasingly frequent climatic cataclysms?
Will man manage to build photochemical systems capable of conducting artificial photosynthesis processes on an industrial scale to buffer the negative effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and inhibit the global warming process?
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We must be careful with artificial methods to reduce global warming, because rich and powerful companies may use these methods as reasons to continue producing high quantities of contaminants, extracting more petroleum or deforesting huge land surfaces. I think we must to focus in preserving natural services, because any artificial measures that humans try can negatively impact other beings.
We must remember planet earth is not only for humans, there are more non-humans living here than us, and all of them deserve to survive.
In lab scale-it will work, but in the mass -field scale there is doubt.. Better the plant litter may be allowed to decompose in closed system
It depends on what you mean by photosynthesis in this context. Do you mean the creation of more energetic molecules from less energetic ones and using them to make products like polymers and such like? Or do you you simply mean extracting energy from the solar input and converting it to something useful like electricity? We can do the second very well now; but the first probably won't scale up because in the end you are simply trying to redesign biological systems to make them "more efficient". But now you need to define what you mean by efficient and examine the ecological price of obtaining such an improvement. Since the input energy - sunlight - is free, it isn't clear why you want to do better than the existing biological mechanisms; any replacement would have to scale up to the same level of production and that will be an environmental nightmare as you may find the two systems are not compatible and you end up destroying the very ecosphere you set out trying to save.
Dear Ofelia Andrea Valdés Rodríguez, Abhijit Mitra, Tony Maine, Bharath Setturu, Thank you for the proposed interesting issues in the field artificial photosynthesis. Thank you very much for the sent suggestions of interesting topics, research issues, etc. related to this issue. Best wishes,
Have a nice day,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
How much lifting can be done in these ways on Earth? What about in space travel, space stations and colonised planets if we get that far? Is there a bigger literature on these questions?
Dear Peter Vintila,
It is very unlikely that humans will have managed to build spacecraft that would enable the colonization of Earth-like exoplanets outside our solar system before a global climate catastrophe occurs. Therefore, the key challenge for humanity in the 21st century is the fastest possible implementation of the pro-environmental transformation of the economy.
Thank you, Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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