Replication of Photosynthesis

[fcpeace17]

I am an electrical engineer currently studying alternative energy, and I realize this would be a very difficult task but I would like some feedback on whether this study has been attempted or if people are afraid to attack it. When trying to think of how to purify the air i first turned to ionization, then i found out it produced ozone and at low altitudes ozone is bad... if only there was a way to rocket the ozone produced from ionization up into the stratosphere... SO THEN i turned to photosynthesis, what would be the fundamental requirements to replicate photosynthesis, to reverse the large CO2 gas emissions? Evan Wayton

[mith]

Are you thinking of doing it mechanically or still somewhat biologically?

[polycon]

an algae hybrid biomass that grows nanofiber superconducter roots which transfer the potential electricity gernerated into a contemporary household circuitry?

[MrMistery]

it has always been a stupid dream of mine to make a box that you put water in and put it in the sun which will produce oxygen and glucose.
it is possible in theory. but it is hard and can't be done at the moment. we do not yet know all the details of photosynthesis. to begin to grasp at how complicated such a project would be, it is estimated that what we currently know about photosynthesis(and we are getting damn close to figuring it out entirely), put on paper, would fill a library(yeah, not a book, a library!)

[polycon]

infuse chlorophyll in to human's skin cells so that we only need sunlight and water to complete the process.. oh yeah and eliminate our lung gene, and add the ability to breathe through our skin CO2.

atrophy our pinky toe and our tongues also.

[MrMistery]

that is a disturbing immage,polycon

[fcpeace17]

infuse chlorophyll in to human's skin cells so that we only need sunlight and water to complete the process.. oh yeah and eliminate our lung gene, and add the ability to breathe through our skin CO2.

atrophy our pinky toe and our tongues also.

HAHAH alright who is going to be the first volunteer?
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"Are you thinking of doing it mechanically or still somewhat biologically?"
Well for the time being it seems like it would have to come biologically or possibly chemically? because i am not aware of a way of breaking down molecular structures electrically, that is why i came here. It is not a subject that i am very well based on and i would like to know how one would go about doing it or whether it would be reasonable.

"an algae hybrid biomass that grows nanofiber superconducter roots which transfer the potential electricity gernerated into a contemporary household circuitry?"
Im going more for the something that changes co2 into oxygen.

[polycon]

Im going more for the something that changes co2 into oxygen.

one word - greenhouse.


volunteer? I'll volunteer.

not like theres gonna be much human left in me by the time this fiber disease is done with me.

[Dr.Stein]

No need to infuse the chlorophyll, just change Fe of our hemoglobin for Mg, and we will turn into photosynthetic organism I know this is theory, but that's how to describe green Martians: one-third human one-third plant, one-third soemthng else

[mith]

You can't just infuse chlorophyll, photosynthesis requires all sorts of support structures to increase air circulation and provide water.

[MrMistery]

doc, if you substitute the Fe in heme for Mg it will not turn to chlorophil. even if both of them are based on the same protoporphirin ring, they are not exactly the same molecule with a different atom in the center: they differ slightly. also chl has a hydrocarbon tail that is absent in heme.
and of course photosynthesis requires much more than chl, it requires thousants of different molecules arranged in an orderly way. they are so important, that the proteins that accompany chl in the reaction are the second most abundant proteins in the living world after the rubisco enzyme.