{"id":310158,"date":"2017-05-03T10:51:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5cb63abf0b010929f359e89257b17276"},"modified":"2017-05-03T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:51:52","slug":"turning-chicken-poop-and-weeds-into-biofuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=310158","title":{"rendered":"Turning chicken poop and weeds into biofuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicken is a favorite, inexpensive meat across the globe. But the bird&#8217;s popularity results in a lot of waste that can pollute soil and water. One strategy for dealing with poultry poop is to turn it into biofuel, and now scientists have developed a way to do this by mixing the waste with another environmental scourge, an invasive weed that is affecting agriculture in Africa. They report their approach in ACS&#8217; journal Energy &#038; Fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicken is a favorite, inexpensive meat across the globe. But the bird&#8217;s popularity results in a lot of waste that can pollute soil and water. One strategy for dealing with poultry poop is to turn it into biofuel, and now scientists have developed a way to do this by mixing the waste with another environmental scourge, an invasive weed that is affecting agriculture in Africa. They report their approach in ACS&#8217; journal Energy &amp; Fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310159,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310158\/revisions\/310159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}