Stop eating your spinach — the future of hydro may depend on it
Spinach Could Power Better Solar Cells
They report a light-to-electrical efficiency of 12%, which in itself isn’t bad. I believe that’s not atypical even for “conventional” solar cells. The main problem is the chemical stability of their cells. A solar cell isn’t very practical if it disintegrates every three weeks.
We could see a lot more research like this in the next few years. Understanding the dynamics of light-harvesting organic materials are a hot topic amongst biochemists these days.