{"id":112023,"date":"2020-08-28T14:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/university-of-cambridge-develops-synthetic-leaf-that-turns-sunlight-into-fuel"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:33:21","slug":"university-of-cambridge-develops-synthetic-leaf-that-turns-sunlight-into-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/university-of-cambridge-develops-synthetic-leaf-that-turns-sunlight-into-fuel","title":{"rendered":"University of Cambridge develops synthetic leaf that turns sunlight into fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/university-of-cambridge-develops-synthetic-leaf-that-turns-sunlight-into-fuel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More advances on artificial photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists at the UK\u2019s <a href=https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/cambridge-university\/>University of Cambridge<\/a> have developed a <a href=https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/renewable-energy\/>renewable energy<\/a> device that mimics <a href=https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/photosynthesis\/>photosynthesis<\/a> by making fuel from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water.<\/p>\n<p>Taking inspiration from the way that plants create their own energy, the device is a slim sheet that produces oxygen and formic acid from water, carbon dioxide and sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>Formic acid can be stored and used as fuel on its own, or turned into hydrogen fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More advances on artificial photosynthesis. Scientists at the UK\u2019s University of Cambridge have developed a renewable energy device that mimics photosynthesis by making fuel from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water. Taking inspiration from the way that plants create their own energy, the device is a slim sheet that produces oxygen and formic acid from water, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}