'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists

Re:'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists by 0nly1ife on Thursday May 20, 2010 @04:44PM (#1365339)

> Really, it's the height of hubris to think that we can engineer something that works as well as what untold generations has evolved.

At best photosynthesis have an efficiency of about 8% At best solar panels have an efficiency of 40%

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Re:'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists by Evgeny on Thursday May 20, 2010 @07:04PM (#1365793)

Is there a man-made process that can restore oxygen from carbon dioxide more effectively than photosynthesis? It also has to be reasonably cheap though ...

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Re:'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists by rationalbeaver on Thursday May 20, 2010 @06:49PM (#1365742)

Yeah, but you can't eat solar panels.

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