{"id":2239,"date":"2006-03-19T21:26:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2006-03-19T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-19T21:26:22","slug":"grow_your_own_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2239","title":{"rendered":"Grow Your Own Oil, US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,70430-0.html?tw=rss.index\">Sean Captain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Researchers hoping to ease America&#8217;s oil addiction are turning sawdust and wood chips into bio-oil, a thick black liquid that could become a green substitute for many petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>Bio-oil can be made from almost any organic material, including agricultural and forest waste like corn stalks and scraps of bark. Converting the raw biomass into bio-oil yields a product that is easy to transport and can be processed into higher-value fuels and chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is technically feasible to use biomass for the production of all the materials that we currently produce from petroleum,&#8221; said professor Robert C. Brown, director of the Office of Biorenewables Programs at Iowa State University.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Captain: Researchers hoping to ease America&#8217;s oil addiction are turning sawdust and wood chips into bio-oil, a thick black liquid that could become a green substitute for many petroleum products. Bio-oil can be made from almost any organic material, including agricultural and forest waste like corn stalks and scraps of bark. Converting the raw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}