{"id":14903,"date":"2015-02-12T13:03:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14903"},"modified":"2015-02-12T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:03:01","slug":"researchers-design-bionic-leaf-capable-of-converting-sunlight-into-liquid-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14903","title":{"rendered":"Researchers design bionic leaf capable of converting sunlight into liquid fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re almost at a 1 percent efficiency rate of converting sunlight into isopropanol,\u201d Nocera said. \u201cThere have been 2.6 billion years of evolution, and Pam and I working together a year and a half have already achieved the efficiency of photosynthesis.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techienews.co.uk\/9723643\/researchers-design-bionic-leaf-capable-converting-sunlight-liquid-fuel\/\">Researchers design bionic leaf capable of converting sunlight into liquid fuel &#8211; Techie News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayfield told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/scientists-using-sunlight-to-make-liquid-fuel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CBS News<\/a> that the exact same thing \u2013 turning electrons into biomass \u2013 has already been done many a times previously by using the same bacteria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re almost at a 1 percent efficiency rate of converting sunlight into isopropanol,\u201d Nocera said. \u201cThere have been 2.6 billion years of evolution, and Pam and I working together a year and a half have already achieved the efficiency of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14903\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[946,776,100,1209],"class_list":["post-14903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-chemistry","tag-green-tech","tag-interesting-research","tag-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14904,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions\/14904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}