And purple bacteria could be part of the answer.

紫色细菌可能是答案的一部分。

Other cellular kitchens, like those in purple bacteria, can make sugar too, but not quite as well as the green ones.

其他的细胞 “厨房”，像那些紫色细菌，也可以生产糖类，但是比不上绿色的那个。

Researchers were able to take purple bacteria growing naturally in wastewater and cultivate them by shining infrared lamps on a sludge mix.

研究人员能够在废水中自然生长的紫色细菌，并通过在污泥混合物上照射红外线灯来培养它们。

And while plants use that light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen, purple bacteria are a lot more flexible.

虽然植物利用光能将二氧化碳和水转化为糖和氧，紫色细菌要灵活得多。

Purple bacteria, or purple phototrophic bacteria, to be more precise, are a group of bacterial species that can make their own food using photosynthesis, kind of like plants and algae do.

紫色细菌，或者更准确地说，紫色光合细菌是一组细菌物种，它们可以利用光合作用制造自己的食物，有点像植物和藻类。

In a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Energy Research, they report that purple bacteria could help us harness that energy and reduce carbon emissions at the same time.

在《能源研究前沿》杂志上的一篇新论文中，他们报告说紫色细菌可以帮助我们利用这种能量，同时减少碳排放。