Could Photosynthesis Breakthrough Yield Solar Power Advance?

"Quantum Secrets of Photosynthesis Revealed"

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, April 12, 2007:

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/PBD-quantum-secrets.html
BERKELEY, CA -Through photosynthesis, green plants and cyanobacteria are able to transfer sunlight energy to molecular reaction centers for conversion into chemical energy with nearly 100-percent efficiency. Speed is the key - the transfer of the solar energy takes place almost instantaneously so little energy is wasted as heat. How photosynthesis achieves this near instantaneous energy transfer is a long-standing mystery that may have finally been solved.
Scientific American has a news summary about this research:
http://tinyurl.com/25sfdl
or
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=ED1D1446-E7F2-99DF-3CBF8B2F66C0C5D4&chanID=sa003
As does the journal Nature (in which the full article will be published). "Knowing how plants and bacteria harvest light for photosynthesis so efficiently could provide a clean solution to mankind's energy requirements. The secret, it seems, may be the coherent application of quantum principles....":
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7137/full/446740a.html
PhysicsWeb also has a piece:
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/4/10/1
Additional press coverage...
Chemical & Engineering News:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i16/8516notw6.html
Wired Science:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/04/quantum_photosy.html
Science Daily (mirror story):
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070412131257.htm
Quite interesting and hopeful....
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