Do-It-Yourself Photosynthesis Is Here!

Photosynthesis, the elegant process of making fuel from sunlight, might be the future of how we power, well, just about anything. Plants may have invented it, but humans are taking the model and really running with it, to make anything from hydrogen gas to methane!

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