{"id":119782,"date":"2021-02-19T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T06:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/using-plasma-technology-to-feed-the-world"},"modified":"2021-02-19T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T06:23:14","slug":"using-plasma-technology-to-feed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/using-plasma-technology-to-feed-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Using plasma technology to feed the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-plasma-technology-to-feed-the-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using state-of-the-art plasma technology to make cheap fertilizer for small farmers may sound like magic, but it has now become reality. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU\/e) have built a small plasma-powered plant that produces nitrogen-based liquid fertilizer only using sun, water and air. \u201cThe plant is easy to set up, sustainable and very efficient,\u201d says TU\/e researcher Fausto Gallucci, who together with partners in Africa, Germany and Portugal has done successful tests of the device in Uganda. \u201cWe now want to bring the mini-plant to the market, so that it becomes available to farmers around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using state-of-the-art plasma technology to make cheap fertilizer for small farmers may sound like magic, but it has now become reality. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU\/e) have built a small plasma-powered plant that produces nitrogen-based liquid fertilizer only using sun, water and air. \u201cThe plant is easy to set up, sustainable and very [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119782","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=119782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}