{"id":149118,"date":"2022-10-29T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/study-involving-cu-boulder-shows-fertilizer-can-be-made-from-sunlight"},"modified":"2022-10-29T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T03:22:18","slug":"study-involving-cu-boulder-shows-fertilizer-can-be-made-from-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/study-involving-cu-boulder-shows-fertilizer-can-be-made-from-sunlight","title":{"rendered":"Study involving CU-Boulder shows fertilizer can be made from sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-involving-cu-boulder-shows-fertilizer-can-be-made-from-sunlight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden and involving the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a new, eco-friendly method to produce ammonia, the main ingredient of fertilizer, using light.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers discovered that light energy can be used to change dinitrogen (N2), a molecule made of two nitrogen atoms, to ammonia (NH3), a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen. The researchers hope the newly discovered, light-driven chemical process that creates ammonia can lead to future developments that will enhance global agricultural practices while decreasing the dependence of farmers on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally there have been two main ways to transform nitrogen, the most common gas in Earth\u2019s atmosphere, for use by living organisms. One is a biological process that occurs when atmospheric nitrogen is \u201cfixed\u201d by bacteria found in the roots of some plants like legumes and then converted to ammonia by an enzyme called nitrogenase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden and involving the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a new, eco-friendly method to produce ammonia, the main ingredient of fertilizer, using light. The researchers discovered that light energy can be used to change dinitrogen (N2), a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,1506,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-food","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149118","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}