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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Power Plant” won’t be a fitting term until we can generate electricity (at a viable scale) from chloroplasts.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    fun fact: chloroplasts generate an electric potential across the cell membrane during photosynthesis. essentially, they have membrane proteins in their chloroplast membranes that push electrons from one side of the membrane to the other side whenever a photon hits the protein. It’s essentially a natural photovoltaic cell.

    That electric potential is then used to create ATP in nature, while we just directly extract the electrical power through cables.

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  • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even better if you can use it to power a humanoid robot for a real world plant golem.

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t that the goal?

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  • JATtho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You should look at mitochondria:

    • The power plant of the cell.
    • Runs on a proton-gradient.
    • ATP synthase is essentially a molecular turbine and a generator.
    • oh. a turbine. Damm thing spins ~18000 rpm at medium throttle, pumping out elec- ATP. ATP.

    Oops… it’s turbines all the way down.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      runs on proton gradient

      So I can launch it from Lutris?

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• dublet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I dunno if “power plant” quite fits for solar and wind

  Why not?

  The First Law of Thermodynamics: Energy Cannot Be Created or Destroyed

  Fossil fuel power plants merely convert chemical energy into another type.

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  • JakenVeina@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just that “power plant” I think most people associate with large enclosed facilities that house power generating equipment, which doesn’t quite describe wind and solar farms. Hence that most people refer to them as “farms”.

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