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Wonders of algae

astronauts can now do away with oxygen cylinders. Scientists at the agency of industrial science and technology's National Institute for Resources and Environment have developed a battery that generates not only electricity but also oxygen. And the thing that makes it possible is common algae. During photosynthesis, like other plants algae releases oxygen. When the electrons that are passed around inside a plant cell during photosynthesis are directed outside to an electrode, you have a

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