{"id":239555,"date":"2026-06-24T22:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/growing-a-new-leaf-that-harnesses-sun-water-and-co2-to-make-liquid-fuel"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:03:16","slug":"growing-a-new-leaf-that-harnesses-sun-water-and-co2-to-make-liquid-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/growing-a-new-leaf-that-harnesses-sun-water-and-co2-to-make-liquid-fuel","title":{"rendered":"Growing a new \u2018leaf\u2019 that harnesses sun, water and CO2 to make liquid fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/growing-a-new-leaf-that-harnesses-sun-water-and-co2-to-make-liquid-fuel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bit.ly\/4g59l7h<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A Yale-led research team has developed the first standalone device that produces the liquid fuel methanol using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide as the ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>The artificial \u201cleaf,\u201d like its namesake in nature, is a chemistry marvel. It brings the scientific mimicry of photosynthesis \u2014 the process of converting sunlight and water into chemical energy \u2014 to a new level, converting sunlight to methanol 32 times more efficiently than the previous conversion record for artificial leaf technologies that generate alcohol products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bit.ly\/4g59l7h A Yale-led research team has developed the first standalone device that produces the liquid fuel methanol using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide as the ingredients. The artificial \u201cleaf,\u201d like its namesake in nature, is a chemistry marvel. It brings the scientific mimicry of photosynthesis \u2014 the process of converting sunlight and water into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239555","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}