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You aren't violating basic physics and thermodynamics being what they are please explain simply where the additional energy comes from?



"electrocatalysis-based artificial photosynthesis"

https://engr.udel.edu/news/2022/06/artificial-photosynthesis...

This should help out some.


This reads like marketing bullshit. "4 times more efficient than photosynthesis" is gibberish when the sun costs nothing and your process requires electricity. Yeast, algae, and fungus? And maybe lettuce (which has roughly the nutritional content of a glass of ice water with a couple gnats in it)? That's it?


The extra energy comes from the electro. Electricity into acetate, then used as 'plant food'. As a substitute for the glucose perhaps?


Radical!




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