英文早点 | 0910_半人工光合作用，太阳能变成了燃料

科学家开创了将阳光转化为燃料的新方法。在研究人员通过改变植物中的光合作用机器成功地将水分解为氢和氧之后，寻求找到利用太阳能的新方法已经向前迈出了一步。光合作用是植物用于将太阳光转化为能量的过程。当植物吸收的水被“分裂”时，氧气作为光合作用的副产物产生。它是地球上最重要的反应之一，因为它是几乎所有世界氧气的来源。分解水时产生的氢可能是绿色且无限的可再生能源。

It never will rain roses.When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.----Eliot

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a new technique, inspired by the process of photosynthesis in plants, which could one day be used to produce hydrogen fuel—a clean and practically unlimited source of renewable energy.

While artificial photosynthesis techniques have been around for decades, they have not been adapted to produce renewable energy because these methods require the use of catalyst materials which have several drawbacks.

文本选自 ：Newsweek（新闻周刊）

作者 ：Aristos Georgiou

原文标题 ：Semi-artificial photosynthesis: sunlight turned into fuel in 'milestone' for solar energy

原文发布时间 ：3 September 2018

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