Botanical Gameboy
January 29 3-5pm

Scientists use algae to find a valuable new source of fuel: A metabolic switch that triggers algae to turn sunlight into large quantities of hydrogen gas, a valuable fuel, is the subject of a new discovery reported for the first time by University of California, Berkeley, scientists and their Colorado colleagues.

Amy Franceschini and Rich Humphrey harness electricity from a network of lemon trees to power a gameboy.
A custom game: Count Volta will be displayed on the 8-bit screen.

Artist(s): Amy Franceschini, Richard Mortimer Humphrey

Relative urls:
CaliforniaHydorgen Business Council
http://www.ch2bc.org/indexh.htm
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
http://www.nrel.gov/data/pix/searchpix.cgi
American Society for Plant Biologists/Hydrogen from Algae http://www.aspb.org/publicaffairs/news/melis.cfm
Do Plants behave like computers? http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/01/22.html