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Putting Plants to Work Using the power of the sun is nothing new.People have had solar-powered calculators and buildings with solar panels for decades.But plants are the real experts:Theyve been using sunlight as an energy source for billions of years. Ceils in the green leaves of plants work like tiny factories to convert sunlight,carbon dioxide,and water into1 sugars and starches,stored energy that the plants can use.This conversion process is called photosynthesis.Unfortunately,unless youre a plant,its difficult and expensive to convert sunlight into storable energy.Thats why scientists a