Embracing Biological Solutions to the Sustainable Energy Challenge

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• 作者：Oluwakemi Adesina¹ ; ⁵ ; Isao A. Anzai¹ ; ⁵ ; José ; L. Avalos² ; ³ ; ⁴ ; ^{javalos@princeton.edu} ; Buz Barstow¹ ; ^{buz@princeton.edu}
• 关键词：SDG7 ; Affordable and clean energy
• 刊名：Chem
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：12 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：2
• 期：1
• 页码：20-51
• 全文大小：3329 K
• 卷排序：2

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The world today is in a state of enormous transition. In the coming few decades, billions of people are likely to leave poverty. This unprecedented development will be one of the greatest opportunities to improve global quality of life and public health ever presented, but it will only be realized if this development is done right. The challenge of sustainable energy is not just to provide energy without polluting the atmosphere with fossil carbon but also to do so on a global scale and at a cost that everyone can afford. Thanks to capabilities ranging from room-temperature and pressure catalysis to self-assembly, biology offers first-draft solutions to problems in sustainable energy such as the safe use of nuclear energy, the capture and storage of solar power, and even the construction of advanced materials. The goal of applied and synthetic biology in energy is to provide engineering tools and address fundamental questions needed to transform these templates into practical solutions.