the usual process involving sugar collected from
corn.Lettuce
produced the best results from artificial photosynthesis out of all
the food crops tested.
"We were able to grow food-producing organisms without
any contributions from biological photosynthesis,said
one co
writer of the study,Elizabeth Hann,a doctoral candidate
at
University of California Riverside's Jinkerson Lab.Hann added
that the process is much more efficient at turning energy into
food than the biological photosynthesis methods.
The researchers also reported that the process increased en-
ergy efficiency,too.When used together with a solar cell to
power the electrolyzer,the method required just one-fourth the
energy to grow the same amount of food created by sunlight and