{"id":198715,"date":"2024-11-02T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T23:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/farming-in-the-dark-how-electro-agriculture-outpaces-photosynthesis"},"modified":"2024-11-02T18:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T23:23:45","slug":"farming-in-the-dark-how-electro-agriculture-outpaces-photosynthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/farming-in-the-dark-how-electro-agriculture-outpaces-photosynthesis","title":{"rendered":"Farming in the Dark: How Electro-Agriculture Outpaces Photosynthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/farming-in-the-dark-how-electro-agriculture-outpaces-photosynthesis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bioengineers propose \u201celectro-agriculture,\u201d a method that replaces photosynthesis with a solar-powered reaction converting CO2 into acetate, potentially reducing U.S. agricultural land needs by 94% and supporting controlled indoor farming.<\/p>\n<p>Initial experiments focus on genetically modified acetate-consuming plants like tomatoes and lettuce, with potential future applications in space agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Revolutionary Electro-Agriculture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioengineers propose \u201celectro-agriculture,\u201d a method that replaces photosynthesis with a solar-powered reaction converting CO2 into acetate, potentially reducing U.S. agricultural land needs by 94% and supporting controlled indoor farming. Initial experiments focus on genetically modified acetate-consuming plants like tomatoes and lettuce, with potential future applications in space agriculture. Revolutionary Electro-Agriculture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1506,412,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-food","category-genetics","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198715","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}