The future of humanity could lie underground Mar. This has been determined by a prestigious study that is as surprising as the ‘bomb’ that North America will drop into the sea. Marine energy has great potential as a source of clean, renewable and abundant energy. In this regard, research and development of related technologies ensure that natural resources can be used more efficiently to meet global energy needs. The main purpose of visiting the ocean is to provide energy to humans without endangering the environment.
In addition to taking advantage of the various energy sources present in the oceans, this form of energy has great benefits and applications. Also called ocean energy, it is a type of renewable energy obtained from the ocean and its natural resources. It has to do with harnessing the energy contained in the water of the oceans and the tides to produce electricity or other useful forms of energy: waves, tides, ocean currents, ocean thermal gradient and osmotic energy.
There are different types of marine energy: tidal energy, ocean currents, wave energy or tidal energy. However, none of them are the protagonists this time. Humanity would have its future affected Marbut I would find it in some hitherto undiscovered source.
Mankind finds the unthinkable under the sea
A Yale researcher has discovered that giant clams in the western Pacific Ocean may be the most efficient solar energy system in the world. The discovery of Alison Sweeney ends up in a study led by Jale that designers of solar panels and biorefineries could find an important source of knowledge in the iridescent mussels that live near tropical coral reefs.
Giant clams have precise geometries, divided into dynamic vertical columns of photosynthetic receptors covered by a thin layer whose function is to diffuse light. This methodology could make mussels more efficient at converting solar energy than any other solar panel technology. “It’s counterintuitive to a lot of people because clams work under intense sunlight, but inside they are actually very dark,” he said. Alison Sweeneyprofessor of physics and evolutionary and ecological biology at the Yale College of Arts and Sciences.
“The truth is that mussels are more efficient at converting solar energy than any existing solar panel technology,” he added, according to the website Jale. In the new study, published in the journal PRX energya research group with Sweeney At the helm, he showed the world an analytical model to determine the maximum efficiency of photosynthetic systems, based on the geometry, movement and light-scattering properties of the enormous mussels. This analysis is the latest of several studies conducted by the laboratory of Sweeney.
The sea hid what humanity had been looking for for centuries
Giant clams located in the shallow waters of Palauin it Western Pacific Oceanare photosymbiotic. This term means that there are single-celled algae on the surface that absorb sunlight after the light has spread through a layer of cells (iridocytes).
“My colleagues and I continue to think about where else in the world Tierra this level of solar efficiency could occur. It is also crucial to recognize that we can only study biodiversity in places where it is maintained,” he says. Sweeney. What has been discovered in Mar could serve as inspiration for the development of new and more efficient renewable energy technologies: “You can imagine a new generation of solar panels that grow algae, or cheap plastic solar panels made of elastic material.”
Thanks to this important discovery, humanity is getting a glimpse of a new reality Mar. It is a projection as impressive as “La Vaca Muerta” in the middle of the ocean.