{"id":247,"date":"2004-05-14T17:17:40","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T17:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2004-05-14T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T17:17:40","slug":"methane_digester_generating_electricity_from_cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Methane Digester: generating electricity from cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/chronicle\/pictures\/2004\/05\/14_t\/bu_methane107_t.gif\"><br \/>\nOne would think that this type of thing should happen here first&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/05\/14\/BAGJG6LG3R15.DTL\">Maria Alicia Gaura writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>After 25 years of persistent work, Marin County rancher Albert Straus has figured out a way to run his dairy farm, organic creamery and electric car from the manure generated by his herd of 270 cows.<br \/>\nCheered on by a small gathering of engineers, environmentalists and fellow farmers, Straus stepped into a utility shed Thursday, switched on a 75- kilowatt generator, then stepped outside to snip the ribbon spanning a spanking-new electrical panel.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that this type of thing should happen here first&#8230;. Maria Alicia Gaura writes: After 25 years of persistent work, Marin County rancher Albert Straus has figured out a way to run his dairy farm, organic creamery and electric car from the manure generated by his herd of 270 cows. Cheered on by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6,21,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}