{"id":417012,"date":"2010-03-11T16:21:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T20:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2010-03-11T16:21:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T20:21:25","slug":"reading-tea-leaves-future-biofuels-in-the-bottom-of-a-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/417012","title":{"rendered":"Reading Tea Leaves: Future Biofuels in the Bottom of a Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5868 aligncenter\" title=\"Tea_Cup_Leaves\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/03\/Tea_Cup_Leaves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here in the US, tea is essentially a niche product, falling way behind <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/11\/would-you-like-a-coffee-to-go-scirocco-ccino-storms-europe\/\" >coffee<\/a> in terms of popularity. But in places like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1iverating.com\/top\/678\/\" >Middle East, Europe, and Asia<\/a>, tea far surpasses coffee as a national past time. In 2008 alone, the world production of black tea was more than 3.8 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, all those spent tea leaves and remaining liquid are tossed out with the trash, but now two Pakistani researchers have decided to tackle what they perceived as a waste of resources, and have figured out how to completely recycle the leftover tea and tea leaves into biodiesel, ethanol, methane, propane, fertilizer and even chemical spill absorbent.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty ingenious if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/11\/reading-tea-leaves-future-biofuels-in-the-bottom-of-a-cup\/#more-5864\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the US, tea is essentially a niche product, falling way behind coffee in terms of popularity. But in places like the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, tea far surpasses coffee as a national past time. In 2008 alone, the world production of black tea was more than 3.8 million tons. Typically, all those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417012","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\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}