My imagination always falls off the reality...but somehow sciences act like a bridge, linked them together as if the reality is extended.
By way of illustration, one of my colleague thinker and I have come up with a fabulous, but ridiculous idea, which can solve the energy crisis and global warming in one go — the photosynthetic hat! Basically, you have a hat in green, and you can charge it up by exposing it under sunlight, like a plant, and as it is charging, it will start taking in carbon dioxide, giving out oxygen and a bud will swell up on the top of the hat. (If you imagine that, It actually looks rather silly.) At night, you get back home from work, take off your hat and discharge it by attaching it on a device which is connected to a central mass collecting system. Here comes the most ridiculous part... the mass collecting system stores all the starch underneath the power station, not a normal one, instead of using steam to turn the turbine, we use microscopic artificial legs. Imagine having 1000 legs on each blade of the turbine and those legs are modified to 100x more efficient than the human ones. Some may ask what do they feed on? And this is where the starch comes in.
The MAL (microscopic artificial legs) power is 100% pollution free and both world problems can be solved and this is absolutely 100% insane!!!
So, there is the concept. Don't ask me why is it a hat rather than an umbrella or bricks, that is just our first thought. Here is how sciences tie this in with reality. As some of you may have noticed, the function of the hat is the same as a plant except:
-No respiration is involved, so the absorption of carbon dioxide is maximized.
-All carbohydrate fixed is used for storage rather than growth.
-Water is directly absorbed from the air moisture OR from an external source.
Therefore, the key point is ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS. An inorganic machine/substance that fix carbon dioxide into complex organic molecule, as I have researched online, scientists have been working on that for years, but unfortunately we are still waiting for a breakthrough.
Let's talk abut the second part of the concept — the MAL. Is that even possible?? Let's just analyze a bit more...
Features:
-Legs
-with 1 or 2 joints
-powered by glucose
-produced from the breaking down of starch (end-product of the hat)
-high-speed "running"
-anaerobic respiration only (minimized the oxygen uptake)
-rapid removal system of ethanol (alcoholic fermentation)
-Products
-electricity generated by the "running"
-ethanol as a fuel
Conclusion:
To produce the MAL, cost is incredibly high. Not saying it is impossible, but such project will take ages, hopefully in my life span...Basically, this is a fail!!!
Alternative solution? There are always alternative solutions. Why don't we just take away the creepy MAL idea and put something feasible in? It is not that hard, we can simply use the starch that collected and put them with loads of yeast, alcoholic fermentation, and BOOM!! Clean ethanol fuel produced. Then the only problem we have to overcome is the ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS. To improve a bit more, photosynthetic bricks should be made and mass absorption sites should be built on somewhere like a desert.
Enough for crazy talking, bear with me for this one last bit. Don't leave your imagination behind, it is a gift for all of us, it is the mother of all technologies.
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