DIY Solar Energy: Photosynthetic Solar Cells (In the Greenhouse #17)

The Sun delivers more energy to Earth in an hour than people use in a year. Plants have used this solar energy for millions of years, and biomimetic solar cells can help human communities become carbon neutral. In this video we learn how solar cells work and how to make our own dye-sensitized solar cells using berry juice and a few simple materials. The Cornell Center for Materials Research Lending Library of Experiments provides the necessary equipment: https://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/educatio... LESSON PLANS and other support for this activity are part of the Teach Climate Change project: https://climate.earthathome.org/diy-s... Let’s become smarter humans and learn some lessons from plants! Find all our climate activities: https://climate.earthathome.org/teach... Music in this video: Island Woke, by Freedom Trail Studio Images in this video: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Additional Resources: The Teacher-Friendly Guide™ to Climate Change: https://climate.earthathome.org/teach... Earth@Home: https://earthathome.org In the Greenhouse Playlist: https://bit.ly/inthegreenhouse #SolarEnergy #GratzelCell #photovoltaics #DIYSolarCell #electricity #semiconductors #ClimateChange #ClimateSolutions #ClimateActionNow #NGSS #IPCC #CarbonNeutral Connect with PRI and its Museum of the Earth and Cayuga Nature Center: https://www.priweb.org/    / paleontologicalresearchinstitution     / prinstitution     / teachclimate     / cayuganature     / museumofthe.  .   / cayuganatur.  .   / museumofthee.  .   / cayuganature.  .