The air literally crackles: Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy. The discovery could allow us to replace solar-powered devices with “air-powered” versions.
Clean energy is necessary for the energy transition to succeed. Solar or wind power plants can supply these, but their production requires significant amounts of raw materials, such as silicon, iron ore and copper or even steel and cement. The solution to the problem may lie in an enzyme discovered by scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
Enzymes are substances produced by living organisms, such as yeast or bacteria, that speed up or enable certain chemical reactions, including those that produce energy. “We’ve known for some time that bacteria can use the hydrogen in the air as an energy source to grow and survive, including in Antarctic soil, volcanic craters and in the deep sea,” said Professor Chris Greening of the university’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute. “But we didn’t know how they do it until now.”
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