{"id":160009,"date":"2023-03-11T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T09:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-discover-enzyme-that-can-turn-air-into-electricity"},"modified":"2023-03-11T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T09:23:11","slug":"scientists-discover-enzyme-that-can-turn-air-into-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-discover-enzyme-that-can-turn-air-into-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Enzyme That Can Turn Air Into Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-enzyme-that-can-turn-air-into-electricity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an exciting turn for the field of sustainable energy research, Australian scientists have found a way to make energy out of thin air. Literally.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-05781-7\" class=\"\">new study<\/a> published this week in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>, researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia discovered a new bacterial enzyme that transforms the traces of hydrogen in our atmosphere into electricity, technology that could one day be used in fuel cells that power anything from a smartwatch to even a car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve known for some time that bacteria can use the trace hydrogen in the air as a source of energy to help them grow and survive, including in Antarctic soils, volcanic craters, and the deep ocean,\u201d said Professor Chris Greening, a contributor to the study, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monash.edu\/news\/articles\/scientists-discover-enzyme-that-turns-air-into-electricity,-providing-a-new-clean-source-of-energy\" class=\"\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exciting turn for the field of sustainable energy research, Australian scientists have found a way to make energy out of thin air. Literally. As detailed in a new study published this week in the journal Nature, researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia discovered a new bacterial enzyme that transforms the traces of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160009","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}