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Plants are the very definition of green energy. They are powered by sunlight and grow using a few common resources in the environment. They are infinitely renewable, returning everything to the environment when they die. And they do all this using molecules that color our world in beautiful shades of green and red and yellow. Structural biologists are looking to plants for hints about how they live so gracefully, with the hopes that we can somehow incorporate these principles into our own management of energy resources.
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Goodsell, D.S. (2016). Green Energy. In: Atomic Evidence. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32510-1_12
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