UNC EFRC : Fuels From Sunlight - Pushing the Frontiers of Energy Research

UNC ENERGY FRONTIER RESEARCH CENTER (UNC EFRC) http://efrc.unc.edu/
CENTER VISION
Provide the basic research to enable a revolution in the collection and conversion of sunlight into storable solar fuels
CENTER MISSION
"We will combine the best features of academic and translational research to study light/matter interactions and chemical processes for the efficient collection, transfer, and conversion of solar energy into solar fuels and electricity"

This material is based upon work supported as part of the UNC EFRC: Solar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number DE-SC0001011.

Produced By: Nicholas Film Group
Credits:
Nicholas Thomas
Ryan A. S. Jones
LaQuesa Gaillard
Margaret Batts

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[Toddzilla1337]

So glad to see people are actually working on this! All fossil fuel really is is converted solar energy that was captured from plants millions of years ago. If that much energy was captured in just the plants, imagine what we can do if we skip that whole process and harvest it first hand!

KEEP UP THE HARD WORK!