Petroleum from wood-chips and sunlight?

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Making petroleum from wood-chips and other plant wastes is feasible now.

Clink on this link to access Sundrop Fuels looks to combine sunlight + wood-chip to make gasoline

Not only is it carbon neutral to use this petroleum, it is very cheap too. It costs only US$2 per gallon compared to US$60 to $80 per gallon for the conventional fossil fuel petroleum.

Since wood-chip, corn, wheat and rice stalks and leaves are produced in large quantities in crop production, these wastes can be turned into cheap petroleum. The energy for the chemical conversion comes from the unlimited sunlight. Light energy is captured by a series of mirrors and directed onto the plant wastes. The high temperature of 1,200 1,300 degrees Celsius created would break the chemical bonds in the organic material and make new bonds to turn them into fuel.


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Lesson 11: Photosynthesis- nutrition in plants

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Here are some 31 colourful and cheerful powerpoint slides to zest up your revision of this topic. the concepts covered by these slides include:

• organisation of plant-cells, tissues, organs, systems and organism
• specialised cells, adaptation for their functions
  
• palisade cells-contain chloroplasts for photosynthesis
• root hair cells-have large surface area to volume ratio for quick absorption of water and dissolved mineral ions
• guard cells- bean shaped, have unevenly thickened wall for gaseous exchange with the environment
  
• pollen cells- sex cells for adaptation for pollination, used for sexual reproduction
• annotated plant cells
• mitochondria-site of cellular respiration
• chloroplast-site of photosynthesis
• plants are producers in the ecosystem- change sunlight energy into chemical energy aka glucose molecule
• glucose- a carbohydrate which the plant will use to change into proteins, fats and other forms of carbohydrates
• uses of glucose in plant-respiration, 80% efficiency in changing it to other froms and for storage
• cross section of leaf, annotated
• equation for photosynthesis, models to illustratae the synthesis from water and carbon dioxide
• short questions
  

Unit 9 Photosynthesis in Green Plants

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