Dew Drop Artificial Leaf Water Plants Automatically
19 December 2009 | Green Technology | 2 Comments
If you read other articles on MyGreenTreasure.com you may notice my attraction towards biological systems and especially towards plants and how they influence our lives. Growing plants around our homes and even inside our homes offers some very important advantages. Two of these advantages are: improving air quality and the unique design offered by various ornaments. Growing plants is not always an easy task, because the plants require special treatment depending on the species and on the location.
Human Blood to Help Capture CO2 Emissions
17 December 2009 | Green Technology | No Comments
Biological systems have always been used to develop new technologies, and have proved to be very effective in different activity areas. Today, a New Jersey company is trying to reproduce a similar system in order to capture more efficiently carbon dioxide emissions.
Researchers started from the idea that in our body, the blood contains an enzyme able to capture two pounds of CO2 every day and convert it into bicarbonate. Then, when we exhale, the same enzyme converts the rezulted biocarbonate back into CO2.