{"id":337868,"date":"2010-02-18T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2010-02-18T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:39:10","slug":"everyday-grass-could-provide-green-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/337868","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Grass Could Provide Green Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100216221301.htm\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/images\/2010\/02\/100216221301.jpg\" width=\"287\" align=\"left\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100216221301.htm\" >Science Daily<\/a>: A five-year research project has come up with a way of generating green energy from a humble everyday grass.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Teesside University&#8217;s Contaminated Land and Water Centre began the project in 2004 to see which plants could best be grown on brownfield sites as a way of improving unsightly blots on the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the research by the BioReGen (Biomass, Remediation, re-Generation) project team has revealed that reed canary grass can be turned into an excellent fuel for biomass power stations and, on a smaller scale, boilers in buildings like schools.<\/p>\n<p>The native British grass is turned into bricks and pellets. These not only burn well but also don&#8217;t add to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Greenhouse_gas\">greenhouse gases<\/a> or contribute to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Global_warming\">global warming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team experimented with four types of plant, willow trees, the current favourite for biomass power stations, and the miscanthus, reed canary and switch grasses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100216221301.htm\" >Read more &gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3130&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3130\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Daily: A five-year research project has come up with a way of generating green energy from a humble everyday grass. Researchers at Teesside University&#8217;s Contaminated Land and Water Centre began the project in 2004 to see which plants could best be grown on brownfield sites as a way of improving unsightly blots on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}