{"id":28955,"date":"2015-10-01T07:20:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T05:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=28955"},"modified":"2015-09-29T14:10:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T12:10:02","slug":"and-now-from-a-strange-and-compelling-future-the-digests-2015-8-slide-guide-to-electrofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/and-now-from-a-strange-and-compelling-future-the-digests-2015-8-slide-guide-to-electrofuels\/","title":{"rendered":"And now, from a Strange and Compelling Future: The Digest\u2019s 2015 8-Slide Guide to Electrofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most biofuels are produced from plant material that is created through photosynthesis, a process that converts solar energy into stored chemical energy in plants. However, photosynthesis is an inefficient process, and the energy stored in plant material requires significant processing to produce biofuels. Current biofuel production methods are also intensive and require additional resources, such as water, fertilizer, and large areas of land to grow crops.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists can also genetically modify the microorganisms to further improve the efficiency of energy conversion to liquid fuels. These microorganisms can directly use energy from electricity and chemical compounds like hydrogen to produce liquid fuels from carbon dioxide (CO2). Because these microorganisms can directly use these energy sources, the overall efficiency of the fuel-creation process is higher than current biofuel production methods that rely on the more passive photosynthesis process.<\/p>\n<p>And, because electrofuels don\u2019t use photosynthesis, they don\u2019t require the prime agricultural land or water resources of current biofuels.<\/p>\n<p>To view the complete slide deck, click on the page links below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most biofuels are produced from plant material that is created through photosynthesis, a process that converts solar energy into stored chemical energy in plants. However, photosynthesis is an inefficient process, and the energy stored in plant material requires significant processing to produce biofuels. Current biofuel production methods are also intensive and require additional resources, such [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5714],"supplier":[3782,8390],"class_list":["post-28955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biofuels","supplier-advanced-research-projects-agency-energy-arpa-e","supplier-biofuels-digest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28955"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=28955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}