{"id":112159,"date":"2020-08-29T19:27:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T02:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/breakthrough-in-artificial-photosynthesis-lets-scientists-store-the-suns-energy-as-fuel"},"modified":"2020-08-29T19:27:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T02:27:23","slug":"breakthrough-in-artificial-photosynthesis-lets-scientists-store-the-suns-energy-as-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/breakthrough-in-artificial-photosynthesis-lets-scientists-store-the-suns-energy-as-fuel","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in Artificial Photosynthesis Lets Scientists Store The Sun\u2019s Energy as Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-in-artificial-photosynthesis-lets-scientists-store-the-suns-energy-as-fuel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plants have a seemingly effortless skill \u2013 turning sunlight into energy \u2013 and scientists have been working <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-artificial-photosynthesis-breakthrough-uses-gold-to-turn-co2-into-liquid-fuel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to artificially emulate<\/a> this photosynthesis process. The ultimate benefits for renewable energy could be huge \u2013 and a new approach based on \u2018photosheets\u2019 could be the most promising attempt we\u2019ve seen so far.<\/p>\n<p>The new device takes CO2, water, and sunlight as its ingredients, and then produces oxygen and formic acid that can be stored as fuel. The acid can either be used directly or converted into hydrogen \u2013 another potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/rust-and-light-promise-to-make-hydrogen-fuel-production-25x-more-efficient\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clean energy fuel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Key to the innovation is the photosheet \u2014 or photocatalyst sheet \u2014 which uses special semiconductor powders that enable electron interactions and oxidation to occur when sunlight hits the sheet in water, with the help of a cobalt-based catalyst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants have a seemingly effortless skill \u2013 turning sunlight into energy \u2013 and scientists have been working to artificially emulate this photosynthesis process. The ultimate benefits for renewable energy could be huge \u2013 and a new approach based on \u2018photosheets\u2019 could be the most promising attempt we\u2019ve seen so far. The new device takes CO2, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112159","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\/112159","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}