{"id":17214,"date":"2015-09-13T19:55:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T02:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/breakthrough-artificial-leaf-capable-of-producing-oxygen-could-make-living-in-space-a-reality"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:23:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:23:49","slug":"breakthrough-artificial-leaf-capable-of-producing-oxygen-could-make-living-in-space-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/breakthrough-artificial-leaf-capable-of-producing-oxygen-could-make-living-in-space-a-reality","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough: Artificial Leaf Capable Of Producing Oxygen Could Make Living In Space A Reality!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-artificial-leaf-capable-of-producing-oxygen-could-make-living-in-space-a-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man-made \u201cplant\u201d can create endless <a href='http:\/\/www.disclose.tv\/search\/desktop?title=Oxygen'>oxygen<\/a> using light and water!<\/p>\n<p>Pioneers have been dreaming about living in outer space for eons, but there\u2019s always been one major roadblock: securing a long-term oxygen supply. Toting around an indefinite supply of O2 isn\u2019t feasible, and obtaining oxygen from plants in space is difficult, as green vegetation does not thrive in zero gravity environments.<\/p>\n<p>But thanks to graduate student Julian Melchiorri, long-term space travel could soon be a reality. Melchiorri worked with Dezeen and MINI Frontiers to produce the Silk Leaf, an invention capable of sustaining life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disclose.tv\/news\/breakthrough_artificial_leaf_capable_of_producing_oxygen_could_make_living_in_space_a_reality\/122255?utm_content=bufferb9d7d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man-made \u201cplant\u201d can create endless oxygen using light and water! Pioneers have been dreaming about living in outer space for eons, but there\u2019s always been one major roadblock: securing a long-term oxygen supply. Toting around an indefinite supply of O2 isn\u2019t feasible, and obtaining oxygen from plants in space is difficult, as green vegetation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69579,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214\/revisions\/69579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}