UC Berkeley biosciences expert, Chris Somerville says “panels are a good in principle, but harvesting stored solar energy from plants is a more promising and economical approach to help meet global energy needs.” Somerville heads the new Berkeley campus Energy Biosciences Institute funded with half a billion dollars from BP. The idea is to break down plants walls and extract their sugars to produce alcohol for fuel.
Plants’ Solar Energy Trumping Panels?
March 3, 2008 by pysolar
