Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Jellyfish smoothies

Even though this title probably sounds really wierd, actually it is not! Putting thousands of jellyfish in a blender and mixing them, is a way to source igredients for new solar power solutions that could help medical science and offer cheap energy. Scientists strongly believe that by squishing glow-in-the-dark jellyfish, they can use a green fluorescent protein to create very small fuel cells. Those cells can power nanodevices, that would be placed inside the human body, helping with blindness and cancer. While this is going on in U.S., in England, Cambridge, scientists have worked out a way to turn live algae into a biological solar cell, which can be used to generate power from alomost any body of fresh or salt water. By using organisms that get food through photosynthesis, and generating power out of them, has gotten scientists to running a digital clock. The major challenge is how to use the organisms as much as possible, without ruining and hurting all the proteins and nutrients within them.
I think that it is very useful to create power from those sources, because they do not create any pollution, such as greenhouse gasses, and global warming. However, I don't think that it is very nice to kill all those jellyfish. They deserve to live, and they shouldn't be slaughtered like that. If this kind of animal abuse doesn't stop, some organizations might take this discovery to the court. I honestly think that plants are the only type of living thing that those kind of experiments can be done upon.

2 comments:

  1. Hey,
    This is a great article! The title was very creative which is key to bring in readers. Great Job!
    -Blaise

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  2. It's cool that they found that i wonder how they thought of jellyfish

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