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All sources of non-polluting sustainable energy have certain deficiencies. Wind turbines work only when there’s wind. Solar cells work only when the Sun shines in the best and also most expensive ones are only about 20% efficient.
所有無污染可持續能源的來源都存有一定的缺陷。風力渦輪機只有在有風時才能工作。太陽能電池只有在光照最充足的時候才能運作，而最昂貴的太陽能電池的效率也只有20%左右。
Boston College professor Dunwei Wang says there’s also the problem of a long-term storage.
波士頓學院教授王敦偉說，這些能源的長期儲存也存在問題。
One way to do that would be to connect a solar panel with a battery. But in order to power the entire country or the entire planet we just simply don’t have enough battery materials for this purpose.
一種方法是將太陽能電池板與電池連接起來。然而我們並沒有足夠的電池材料能夠滿足給整個國家或整個地球供電。
But nature created its own solar cells as well as the method for storing energy.
但是大自然創造了自己的太陽能電池以及儲存能量的方法。
Every single plant leaf uses the process called photosynthesis to harvest energy from the Sun, turn it into chemical energy so called solar fuel and burn it or store it for later use .
每一片植物的葉子都通過被稱為光合作用的過程從太陽獲取能量，將其轉化為化學能源，即所謂的太陽能燃料，並將其燃燒或儲存起來供以後使用。
This process is too slow for our power-hungry world. But professor Wang says a new catalyst could boost the artificial photosynthesis and more efficiently use the sun’s energy to split water into oxygen and hydrogen.
這個過程對於我們這個耗電的世界來說太慢了，但是王教授說一種新的催化劑可以促進人工光合作用，能更有效地利用太陽的能將水分解成氧和氫。
The latter could be used in fuel cells to produce energy. All we discovered appears to be one of the best catalysts that can do this reaction.
後者可用於燃料電池來生產能源。我們所發現的應該是能夠進行這一反應的最好的催化劑之一。
The other words, we make it a lot easier to extract electrons from water in the process generating oxygen. And the electrons can be used to reduce water to produce hydrogen all to reduce carbon dioxide.
換句話說，在產生氧氣的過程中，我們使從水中提取電子變得更加容易。而且電子可以用來減少水產生氫，從而減少二氧化碳。
Further research is required but scientists say there is hope that the new catalysts could be used on an industrial scale and thus contribute to the general trend towards reducing our dependence on fossil fuels.
這個實驗還需要進一步的研究，但科學家們表示，新的催化劑有望在工業上使用，從而有助於減少我們對化石燃料的依賴。
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