Alternative Energy

Plants are simply amazing at efficiently creating and storing energy from the sun and the breaking of hydrogen bonds and storing that energy in hydrocarbon bonds and through water splitting.

Solar Technology

 * Attempts have already been made to try and harvest the sun's immense enery output to earth but we are still a long way from reaching the efficiency that plant chlroplasts do this
 * This leads us to try and make solar cells that mimic the process that chylorophyll in plants undergo

Bio Fuels

 * Plants generate much more energy than they can use at one time and need to access it at night so they store the energy through in chemical bonds with extreme efficiency

H2O Splitting

 * When plants harvest the energy from the sun they use the energy produced from the chlorphyll to split water molecules
 * By turning water into Hydrogen gas and Oxygen gas the amount of energy that can be gained is phenominal
 * The hydrogen is stored in the hyrdocarbons and sugars in the plant to be used later


 * This is on the order of 400 times more efficient energy storage than current industrial techniques
 * 4 liters of water a day could power a house and 1 car if we can harvest solar energy and store in the splitting of water
 * ​We hope to do this by designing solar cells that mimic the processes of chloroplasts and chlorophyll and use these solar cells to efficiently split water.