Artificial Leaf Technology Could One Day Power Our World
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This artificial leaf creates methanol, absorbs CO2 from the air and is 10 times more efficient than plant photosynthesis. Can you be-leaf it?!
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Scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada have come up with a new design for an artificial leaf. Not only is this technology 10 times more efficient than plant photosynthesis, it might help us move away from the fossil fuels that are getting us into so much trouble.
Since the 1970s, research groups from around the world have been vying to create the first fully-functioning, commercially viable artificial leaf. As a result, various iterations of artificial leaf technologies have unfurled across the world, with each new design building on the success of its predecessors. But the latest breakthrough comes from a Waterloo University-based team.
Instead of producing glucose and oxygen like plants do, this artificial leaf tech is capable of producing methanol, which is a cleaner burning fuel than gasoline, while also scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air and producing oxygen.
Find out more about the different approaches to artificial leaf tech and how this latest research could provide us with an alternative to petroleum and petroleum byproducts in this Elements.
#Photosynthesis #ArtificialLeaf #fossilfuels #tech #Seeker #Elements #Science
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"Liquid fuels already have enormous global infrastructure networks, including storage facilities, transcontinental pipelines, and oil supertankers, not to mention ubiquitous filling stations around the world. A device that could transform sunlight into fuels that are already commonly used could piggyback on that infrastructure."
The Artificial Leaf: Daniel Nocera’s vision for sustainable energy.
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"His emphasis is largely humanitarian; it also arises from his belief, as a scientist, that the only way to meet the world’s projected energy needs without causing intolerable environmental harm will be to work, in effect, from the bottom up-an approach that’s very different from the ones that dominate energy research."
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@the_hanged_clown
4 жыл бұрын
10x my ass. prior to this video a search for "artificial leaf" pulled up results from at least 11 months ago and all narrated by people with some pretty thick accents. also the only actual "footage" you used of this fuel was something featured in one of those previous videos, nothing but a still image in which we don't even know exactly what we're looking at. I'm gonna go ahead and safely say, pics or it didn't happen.
@Galv140577
4 жыл бұрын
With the population increasing exponentially, the demand on aggriculture is also rising exponentially, so we need to increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to help crops grow. It's a scientifically proven fact that the recent rise in CO2 has made the planet greener. If there actually was a problem with the climate and not a problem with the climate chuch's priests being hungry for power and wealth, then all we would have to do is paint everything white to reflect solar energy back into space, like when the Earth was a snowball for 6 million years. That's how long it took for the carbon dioxide from volcanic activity to build up in the atmosphere enough to cause the global warming that saved the world. A global respray just focussing on buildings for a start would be thousands of times more cost effective than trying to control the climate by reducing our life-giving miracle gas carbon dioxide which we depend on to live.
@taj4137
4 жыл бұрын
@@Galv140577 Instead of risking to induce extreme weather catastrophes globally, why not just use green houses with higher co2 concentration?
@Galv140577
4 жыл бұрын
@@taj4137 Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is no risk, there isn't enough of it for plant life to reach its normal growth potential. Extreme weather is usually caused deliberately by people using cloud-seeding techniques, it's nothing to do with CO2. Most commercial greenhouses already do use higher CO2 concentration anyway, which is a good idea, I agree.
@marcobastidas5384
4 жыл бұрын
kind of you to point at that link. I was thinking in something more like Plasma Engineering, or Plasma physics. Of course in the terms from Nuk. Eng. Mehran Tavakoli Keshe (hope it is well spellled). Infinite amounts of free energy at our disposal since... ever. Instead the mega bussiness already using and still promo, without allow us to enter in the real infinite energy field... Blesses and have a good day!
Scientists: you can now connect to the wifi through trees People: start planting trees everywhere Mother earth: *STONKS*
@2FAB4U2B
4 жыл бұрын
I don't think people who don't know how to even properly write neuralink deserve to use it, not to mention other benefits of technology progress
@andrewjulianto4898
4 жыл бұрын
scientists: you can connect to wifi through trees with only 512kbps speed
@CUBETechie
4 жыл бұрын
It may sounds stupid but trees communicate with each other
@Shubham_pandey-nk1un
4 жыл бұрын
@@CUBETechie yeah it's true
@slipstreamxr3763
Жыл бұрын
So that's what the Nav'vi were really doing when the connected to the trees in Avatar.
Normal plants : *create vital oxygen for life Scientists : *create artificial leaves Plants : am i a joke to you ?
@blacklabel130
4 жыл бұрын
no hope for human kind
@fabricesioul3397
4 жыл бұрын
S - Boy, and they have been doing it for free since ages
@s-boy2004
4 жыл бұрын
Fabrice Louis It's like making leaves 2.0
But can I smoke them?
@mmyz7
4 жыл бұрын
Nah that k2 shit be whack
@bryanchannell7715
4 жыл бұрын
Best comment
@blahbleh5671
4 жыл бұрын
no. but u can put up anoose to pleasurable effect
@Mnch-tn9rh
4 жыл бұрын
MediaTek: YES
@Egoistic_girl
4 жыл бұрын
Asking the real questions
An artificial leaf uh? Those Canadians are at it again I see.
@3mar00ss6
4 жыл бұрын
haha tea joke (¯◡¯)
@mumbairay
4 жыл бұрын
They just legalized
@3mar00ss6
4 жыл бұрын
damn it no body took the bait ( ̄ヘ ̄ꐦ)
@edhog
4 жыл бұрын
Am Canadian, can confirm.
"My name is O'hare and I'm one of you, and I live here in sthneedville too."
@commenteroftruth9790
4 жыл бұрын
The things you say just might be true. It could be time to start anew... And maybe change my point of vieww
@patrickreese1868
4 жыл бұрын
My name is Dan, and my name's Rose Our son Wesley kind of glows
@irradiated6126
4 жыл бұрын
Commenter Of Truth naaah, I say let it die! _let it diiieee, let it diiieee, let it shrivel up and-_ come on, who’s with me, huh?
@cindyjohns6222
4 жыл бұрын
@@irradiated6126 lol
@commenteroftruth9790
4 жыл бұрын
@@irradiated6126 *YOU GREEDY DIRTBAAAG!*
Okay wait hold the phone, you’re leaving something out. There’s no way this is as good as it sounds but only gets a 4 minute video. My question is what’s the catch? Maybe I’m misunderstanding the point, which is just that this is an informative bit and not a comprehensive report about a newly emerging technology. How difficult is it to synthesize and handle Cuprous Oxide? What’s your cost/result margin? How controlled must the environment be for this technology to be viable? You pointed out that artificial leaves are 10x better at converting sunlight to glucose than actual plants, but you didn’t specify what plants or how critical this one interaction is to the synthesis of alternative fuel (because glucose is not methanol, which is the target substance, not sugar). I want to be excited about this, but it just seems too good to be true with only a 4 minute video and no headlines or mainstream buzz about it.
@BhaskarReddy-hb2bv
4 жыл бұрын
Bryce Hoffman yeah it’s too good to be true. It can really make a move to stop climate change.. Hope artificial leaf works out..
@spliffworks
4 жыл бұрын
This tec will end up killing all life on earth
@jmonsted
4 жыл бұрын
You must be new to this channel if you're expecting a long in-depth report on the subject.
@BhaskarReddy-hb2bv
4 жыл бұрын
Jesper Monsted I’m not new here and also I’m not expecting a full in depth report. I come to seeker to get updated and get an insight of current and future tech. Didn’t get disappointed till now. They do a pretty good job when compared to other channels.
@Willow4526
4 жыл бұрын
Very simple answer to this. It was an interesting video to make on a field of science that's still doing and discovering ways to better improve our lives with clearly a long way to go. You don't need to go and over complicate a informative video.
I like her energy, 10/10
@MarenHunsberger
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much, friend, glad you liked it! You can check out my personal channel to see me do stuff outside Seeker too :)
@LRSL
4 жыл бұрын
@@MarenHunsberger done and subscribed 😀. From one science grad to another: go get em gal! Power to you ✊🙏
@akrbbb
3 жыл бұрын
yhyh safe
@tobypeters3745
3 жыл бұрын
No u don’t like her energy u like her glasses
@akrbbb
3 жыл бұрын
spectacles 🤓
In 2020 we will have flying car 2020: *artificial leaf technology*
@MidnightBloomDev
4 жыл бұрын
That's the same...
@gabbar51ngh
4 жыл бұрын
Why would you even want a flying car? If you wanna fly get a plane and if you wanna drive get a car. There are vehicles already in existence which can do both. They are nothing but unnecessary burden since if you prefer to fly then it's parts as a car is useless and if you prefer to drive then vice versa.
@JacobWilson777
4 жыл бұрын
@@gabbar51ngh thanks for overanalyzing my comment. Good lord a man can't even make a joke nowadays with some technical know it all tryna break shit down
@tactrix1h
4 жыл бұрын
There actually are flying cars, they came out with them in 2018, but the FFA hasn't approved any of their licensing because it's too dangerous to let regular people fly around. The death toll would be insane. So right now their work around is to make them completely automated and have them replace UBER and cabs.
@JacobWilson777
4 жыл бұрын
@@tactrix1h we actually had jetpacks since 1908
Maren seems like she gives good hugs
@MarenHunsberger
4 жыл бұрын
you better believe it ;)
I was just thinking about Energy through photosynthesis! interesting.
@isigo483
4 жыл бұрын
Dude As a university student studying agriculture i can tell u this is 100% a HOAX. In order to turn carbon into a vesolic ring a huge amount of energy is required. Even if the experiment a these universities work what they DIDNT mention is that the amount of methanol produced is way to low to be further processed. This is nothing more than an experiment .
@prodbysway
4 жыл бұрын
72 degree pyramid technology Suppressed patents lol that’s being a loser
@rubenscott3972
4 жыл бұрын
That’s nothing in 2008 I open up a book and by 2300 we will grow cars from trees like fruit
Great now i can just plug my charger to a house plant!!!
@massimookissed1023
4 жыл бұрын
Unless you have an iPhone, then you'll need to buy a proprietary iPlant, which will die within a year.
@bryanchannell7715
4 жыл бұрын
Plant_e youtube or google it
@shinixshuxd9949
4 жыл бұрын
@@massimookissed1023 Damn and there is no phone jack on it!
@wudupfammm8555
4 жыл бұрын
the iPlant will cost $1k doe
Artificial Leaf: (I found a local one from our regional news column about a years ago while preparing for exams) • It is also known as Quantum Leaf which was developed by Indian Institute of Sciences’ researchers. (based on works of biophysicists from the University of California, Berkeley.) • It uses water, sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce a widely-used gas syngas (mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide) without releasing any carbon dioxide into the air. This will help in reducing carbon footprint. • It is composed of completely bio-compatible, earth abundant, semiconductor nano crystals called Quantum dots which act as catalyst to convert absorbed CO2 into bicarbonate and then ‘formate’ (derivative of formic acid) that can be used as bio fuel.
I can only now imagine an artificial tree blooming with artificial pears 🍐 of which can grow anywhere no matter the temperature or soil.
@randybobandy9828
Жыл бұрын
Stupid
Really wish the videos were 10min long with more detail on the subjects
@isigo483
4 жыл бұрын
They aint cause they are hoaxes
@elwoodzmake
4 жыл бұрын
@@isigo483 Sensationalists, not hoaxes necessarily...
@isigo483
4 жыл бұрын
@@elwoodzmake taking an experiment and saying its a technology is falls information. I m currently studying agriculture so i know how photosynthesis works on a molecular level in and out.i can ensure u that those experiments done in america are pretty interesting though they're not the solution we are Searching for , for a variety of reasons .mainly cause creating a benzolic ring out of CO2 which first needs to be broken up, needs on a molecular lvl huge amounts of energy which sun light alone can not provide. So i dont think what they presented is gonna be used in the future. It could be used as a basis but the technology is gonna differ greatly. And my point is that everyone in the comments thinks that the technology has already been discovered and could be applied in the near future which couldn't be further from the truth
@elwoodzmake
4 жыл бұрын
@@isigo483 but... they didn't say it will be 'soon' used in the video did they? I don't believe this technology will be used soon and just with their video on nuclear fussion i think their videos are pretending something that might happen in 50 years in a different variety, can happen now, with what they are presenting, which i would call utterly sensationalistic. Calling it a 'hoax' seems too strong a wording although i agree with your points. A flatearther might call the heliocentric model a hoax. But sensationalising technology which is barely in their footsteps is not really a hoax. They also seem to lack production value to get their facts completely straight sometimes, still hoax is a strong accusation.
The technological achievements featured in this channel is my high. Who needs drugs when you have seeker. ♥️
@jigglypuff4227
4 жыл бұрын
right
@niki123489
4 жыл бұрын
life is great, who needs drugs either?
@joshuaroper9530
4 жыл бұрын
@@niki123489 r/woooosh
@oohboi2750
4 жыл бұрын
Why not both ?
Comming soon, to a never near you
Another Truly find Seeker! Keep up the great work. After all science is fun!
Leaves to trees to artificial forest then ca-bommy we’re robots
@aperson2730
4 жыл бұрын
ca-bommy?
Ive been hearing tidbits about this idea for a handful of years now, always been interested.
your channel is getting better. Good job =D
It's my one of the favorite channel on KZread I love you guys you are spreading lot of knowledge.❤️
I am seeing a twist that the technology is gonna be so efficient and cheaper than fossil fuel that the world would end up running out of CO2 in the atmosphere, all plant-life died, and the Earth frozen...
And 3 years after this product is still not used. Simply because big businesses don't want it to happen for the simple reason that it will affect their profit.
Love you Maren! Great job!
Incredible the quality of this video.
This is much much better than fashion, it is not only that sofisticación doing the good is extremely fun, it could be real much better than fiction, the thing is that all the videos of seeker has to find solutions for a total sustantible industry in all aspects.
Long ago, a Indian science fiction writer wrote a fiction named 'हरी पीठ वाला आदमी' i.e. A Man With A Green Back'. The fiction tells a scientist's experiment to create a human specimen which could photosynthesize and produce glucose with the help of its chlorophyll infused back, just like plants do. The story was popular for a while since this could end world hunger in no time, but no one took this idea seriously and it faded with time.
This is mind blowing.
Artificial weed
@gbpjpy415
4 жыл бұрын
🤮😞
@mcdip7047
4 жыл бұрын
You get an app to control your high 😂
@michellewomack5215
4 жыл бұрын
Thats already here
That's awesome!!
Seeker videos always give me hope for the future of humanity. People are always inventing stuff to make the future better and it's nice to be reminded of that.
@randybobandy9828
Жыл бұрын
Dont be too hopeful. When has any of the technologies that this channel talked about ever became a reality and used in real life? We are still using the same tech we have been for 30 years.
There's a company called hypersolar that's been working on using solar energy to effectively clean dirty water and produce clean water and hydrogen using solar energy. They've made some pretty serious strides to doing this.
@hurktang
4 жыл бұрын
Electrolysis is nothing new.
@randybobandy9828
Жыл бұрын
What kind of solar energy? If they are just using solar panels to make electricity than it isnt revolutionary or useful.
Rad. Thanks Maren!
She's improved. She presents better :) You can feel her enthusiasm. Very interesting stuff!
Methanol is kinda scary because you cannot see it burn. There's no visible flame. However, you can extinguish it with water, so that is a plus.
You guys get me excited about new technologies and then nothing ever seems to change...
@randybobandy9828
Жыл бұрын
Because it's all bullshit.
Thank you, Mauren that is awesome 👍 you work really hard on what you do
@MarenHunsberger
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for this kind comment! You can check out my personal channel to see me do stuff outside Seeker too :)
I really enjoy Maren's sunny disposition. It's such a pleasant departure from what so much of the internet has to offer.
@MarenHunsberger
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much, friend, glad you liked it! You can check out my personal channel to see me do stuff outside Seeker too :)
@steviebob4
4 жыл бұрын
@@MarenHunsberger Just subscribed.👌
This should be on every building on the planet
I would love to learn about chemosynthesis
Truly hope mass production can start as soon as possible
All I can think of is big green fluffy cars with grass all around them that doesn't ever needs refuel.
Why not do both? Make artificial leaves geared at methanol, while also making more effective oxygen leaves as well. Make fuel and help clean the atmosphere equally.
@niki123489
4 жыл бұрын
or we can just use a cow's poop to get the methanol. In India people do that, because they have a lot of cows.
I'm glad they're coming up with alternative technologies, but I still haven't seen anyone try to tap into the actual nature we have on this planet right now and use IT as the source of energy kind of like solar paneling that already exists.
@randybobandy9828
Жыл бұрын
What are you talking about? We have used wood as fuel for millenia. We have grown corn in order to make ethanol. We have made bio diesels. What are you actually expecting?
@tactrix1h
Жыл бұрын
@@randybobandy9828 What you're talking about is destroying nature for fuel, not tapping into it. In fact one of the main reason we're this far along into the climate change cycle is because of burning of wood for fuel and the like. That's exactly what we need to be moving away from. Let me put it like this, instead of using a tree as lumber and burning the wood for energy we should instead think of a tree as a tiny power plant, and we need to find a way to tap into that powerplant and divert some of that power. It would be none destructive and also much better in terms of sustained energy.
The company that figures this out, will store the oxygen and sell it. Imagine having to buy your oxygen in the future. Human greed is unavoidable
@armadasinterceptor2955
4 жыл бұрын
Dont worry greed is also the biggest downfall, we will just kill them and take their tech.
Love the smoke stack. "Getting us into so much trouble?" 🐿🐿🐿🐿
Magical techno trees to save the day
This reminds me of "silk leaf" which was an artificial leaf structure… I believe made by a french student ... but it supposedly did something similar.
Bravo for your successfull effort. It isn't maybe a big number but you look much Younger. Bravo.
Our cars in Brazil run on Methanol and gasoline.. you choose your fuel when you go to the gastation
Wow nice artificial leaf creates methanol ,graphite and graphene always in the headlines.
Technologies like these never seem to be able to make it out of the lab
now if only we could make a genetic code for a planet that uses this more efficient process as part of its strcture so we could just grow trees that produce methanol
@Earthether
4 жыл бұрын
Graeme Evans agree
The Cuprous Oxide looks good. Simple, and it works at room temperature?? So what are the drawbacks? Any details of problems yet to overcome with this method??
This can take artificial plants to next level
Nature is always the answer for us isn't it? We always come back, full circle. Thank you earth.
Nice info darling
you can see how much promissing that technology is from her face reactions 😉
I asked my science teacher 26 years ago... if we can we artificially photosynthesis....I should have got into that research
I can't tell if this is good or not, but boy, this girl excitement gets my all hyped about it... 👍
Just plain amazing!! Mutti Merkel is also a physicist. Keep talking, brighter days ahead!!
This could be useful for Mars missions. SpaceX's StarShip uses methane as fuel. They want to create methane for the return trip from CO2 on Mars. Probably using a Sabatier reactor. But apparently it requires a lot of electric energy.
As soon as you take CO2 out of the atmosphere to generate methanol, you will definitely push it back into the atmosphere as soon as you use it. The same problem is with trees, yes they take CO2... but the store it, and if you then chop the tree down and burn it, you release all the stored CO2 of the last 10, 20, 50 or 100 years back into the atmosphere... so it's not "clean"
@bruswain9158
Жыл бұрын
Yes but that means you are not burning additional fossil fuels so it's carbon neutral in a sense
Trees: am I a joke to you?
What happens to the copper oxide when its used as a catalyst? Does it use up the copper? Is it possible to run out of copper?
no matter what the problem in the world - answer is always in science somewhere - quite incredible
Artificial. Soon everything will be artificial
@zell9058
4 жыл бұрын
My mom’s hip is artificial.
@xhivo97
4 жыл бұрын
I'm an A.I, look at me go!
hello, i need a ppt on artificial leaf for MSC , bankura university, please give some idea about it
Interesting
love u the way u r talking.
Nice
I have seen announcements and videos like this for the last 25 years. . . WHEN!? WHEN WILL THIS BE ON THE MARKET!?!?!
Everybody else talking clean energy, im already past that, im talking Farscape, im talking Living Spaceships🤗
Interesting fact: The entire world's population could fit inside Los Angeles.
@actuallycoverse
4 жыл бұрын
False. (Correct Answer) We can fit the entire world population in New York
@suicidalanimal1005
4 жыл бұрын
Good luck
@Ghettofinger
4 жыл бұрын
Tanvir Bepari If you got the average shoulder width of a human being, and if you assume all humans are adults and put them shoulder to shoulder, it would take a land mass the size of Texas.
@missymoonwillow6545
4 жыл бұрын
no thanks, underground lizard cities. PASS. And folks think the government is mind controlling them... lol. Hiss Hiss... come be famous my precioussss. House of Slitherin. Shivers down me spine. Seen the giant serpent in the skies in 2007 over silicon valley. Never forget it. IT was making it rain so gently... and it was needed after those fires hit. RIP Leviathan. God Bless Australia. Rainbow Serpent has fallen.
@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369
4 жыл бұрын
Missy Moonwillow da heck
Wow. If we could only just make plants because that's so hard!
I think it would take million more years to successfully run those dream projects.
We need to start incorporating new green technologies, such as these, into our everyday life ASAP! The future of our children depends on it.
Could you please tell me what is the proper amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. ???
Amazingg 😍😍
The same intellectual quality, the same human quality, of the heart.
When will this actually come out tho?
SOLAR PANELS: AM I A JOKE TO YOU
So potentially we can have biofuel next to industrial zones to fuel logistical vehicles? That will change urban planning for sure.
Topic: use of bio remediation, specifically mycoremediation, to clean pollution from the environment.
True that
Great
Awesome. Now we only need to grow pointed ears and rhyme poetry all day :D
Critics of this idea said that it is impossible to infuse chlorophyll into human body and it is just a fascinating science fiction story and it can not be real.
Methanol ? Does it work already ? Then what are they waiting for to put it to use ?
Because of plant photosynthesis you eat food but due to this artificial photosynthesis you can't drink or eat methonol .. plants just don't absorb co2 they have a lot more useful purposes which this invention can't solve... But still hats off for science
Great, even my tree can get hacked now
Wow!
The birds don’t work for the bourgeoisie........ The trees do.
Could, maybe, hope to, might
I like the Solar Foods approach better. They use electricity and do abiotic electrolysis to make hydrogen and then use the hydrogen for feed stock for bacteria. The electricity is more practical, it can come from spare solar or wind or anything.
You should read "The Accidental Superpower", " The Absent Superpower" and "Disunited Nations" by Peter Zeihan.
Fractals...the future is fractal technology. Thanks mother nature. Another fun fact, if the entire state of Rhode Island was a giant industrial hemp farm, the U.S. could end its fossil fuel dependency.
My skyscrapers will be covered in these
I was thinking xenobots meet solar panels