News Article in ScienceViews: Solar Driven Production
Today, professor Birger Lindberg Møller has an opinion piece in ScienceViews - a debate forum under the Novo Nordisk Foundation. In it, he outlines his vision on how to rethink our current production systems: Instead of being based on fossil fuels and release of immense amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, they should be based on harvesting solar energy and the consumption of CO2. These systems should be developed in collaboration with nature by using it’s innate creativity and innovation power. It would be far better for our planet – and it is becoming a realistic option.
Read the full article here: Tomorrow’s climate-friendly production will harvest solar energy and use CO2
In the opinion piece by Birger Lindberg Møller, you can e.g. read about:
- How to develop photosynthetic organisms into “green yeast cells” that produce both biofuels and high-value natural compounds such as new pharmaceuticals and new types of biodegradable polymers
- How to make solar energy–based production economically feasible within the next decade
- Why it is advantageous to use algae as production organisms
- Why Denmark and the Plant Biochemistry Laboratory at the University of Copenhagen University could pioneer the development of these green production systems
- Why it is beneficial to place the production platforms on the sea
- What production techniques to use
- How to benefit from a new energy-island 80 kilometers offshore in the North Sea
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ScienceViews is a debate forum on the Sciencenews.dk website. ScienceViews enables researchers to present their suggestions on how new science or technology can contribute to solve current or future challenges. All contributions are based on research or researchers that the Novo Nordisk Foundation has supported.