Feature image credit: Victor Tangermann Futurism ponders, “Sugar, Light, And A New Type of Chemistry — What It May Take To Wean Us Off Fossil Fuels” in an article by Dan Robitzki. The topic brings a new term into your editor’s vocabulary – BioLEC – Bioinspired Light Escalated Chemistry. The goal of such chemistry is to use the energy of two photons, “the tiniest quantifiable units of light, to power chemical reactions.” This takes us into how trees and other photosynthesizing plants use quantum theory to make things grow. Trees Have Been Doing it For Years It’s a bit odd to think of trees and quantum physics in the same sentence. Your editor used to think of sunlight striking leaves …
