{"id":529585,"date":"2010-04-16T07:54:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2010-04-16T07:54:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:54:59","slug":"who%e2%80%99s-laughing-now-scientists-make-crude-oil-from-pig-manure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529585","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Laughing Now? Scientists Make Crude Oil from Pig Manure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8363\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/16\/whod-laughing-now-scientists-make-crude-oil-from-pig-manure\/crude-oil-could-be-derived-from-pig-manure\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8363\" title=\"crude oil could be derived from pig manure\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/crude-oil-could-be-derived-from-pig-manure.jpg\" alt=\"Scientists at the University of Illinois have developed a process for converting raw pig manure into crude oil\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a>Pig manure is one step away from a transformation of metamorphic proportions.\u00a0 The lowly waste product, notorious for its impact on the environment and on human olfactory nerves, is on the verge of becoming an important alternative to petroleum now that scientists at the <a title=\"UI website\" href=\"http:\/\/aces.illinois.edu\/\" >University of Illinois<\/a> have developed a process for <a title=\"waterandwastewater.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.waterandwastewater.com\/www_services\/news_center\/publish\/article_002060.shtml\" >converting raw pig manure to crude oil<\/a>.\u00a0 With further development, the process may even yield biodiesel.<\/p>\n<p>If successful commercially, the process would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants from pig farms and many other types of livestock operations.\u00a0 In particular, it could help protect drinking water supplies in livestock farming areas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/16\/whod-laughing-now-scientists-make-crude-oil-from-pig-manure\/#more-8361\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pig manure is one step away from a transformation of metamorphic proportions.\u00a0 The lowly waste product, notorious for its impact on the environment and on human olfactory nerves, is on the verge of becoming an important alternative to petroleum now that scientists at the University of Illinois have developed a process for converting raw pig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529585","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\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}