Is the Hornet Our Key to Renewable Energy ?

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Is the Hornet Our Key to Renewable Energy ?

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

TAU discovers that the outer shell of a hornet can harvest solar power

As every middle-school child knows, in the process of photosynthesis, plants take the sun's energy and convert it to electrical energy. Now a Tel Aviv University team has demonstrated how a member of the animal kingdom, the Oriental hornet, takes the sun's energy and converts it into electric power — in the brown and yellow parts of its body — as well.
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Source: http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page...ticle&id=13661

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