{"id":578920,"date":"2010-05-25T23:13:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T03:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=10254"},"modified":"2010-05-25T23:13:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T03:13:38","slug":"another-reason-to-not-like-kudzu-unless-it%e2%80%99s-good-for-making-biofuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/578920","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason to Not Like Kudzu (Unless It\u2019s Good for Making Biofuel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10255\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/25\/another-reason-to-not-like-kudzu-unless-its-good-for-making-biofuel\/scientists-discover-link-between-kudzu-and-ozone-pollution\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10255\" title=\"scientists discover link between kudzu and ozone pollution\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/05\/scientists-discover-link-between-kudzu-and-ozone-pollution.jpg\" alt=\"Scientists at the University of Virginia have linked kudzu to excess ozone formation\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>The jury is still out on the commercial viability of <a title=\"discovery.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2008\/06\/16\/kudzu-biofuel-ethanol.html\" >kudzu as a biofuel crop<\/a>, but scientists at the University of Virginia have come up with a compelling reason to get the invasive, fast-growing vine under control but quick.\u00a0 The team has found evidence that <a title=\"eponline article\" href=\"http:\/\/eponline.com\/articles\/2010\/05\/25\/university-of-virginia-reports-kudzu-contributes-to-ozone-pollution.aspx\" >kudzu is a major contributor to surface ozone pollution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The kudzu-induced increase in ozone is so powerful that it &#8220;completely overcomes the reduction in ozone realized from automobile pollution control legislation,&#8221; reports a member of the research team.\u00a0 Dang!<\/p>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/25\/another-reason-to-not-like-kudzu-unless-its-good-for-making-biofuel\/#more-10254\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jury is still out on the commercial viability of kudzu as a biofuel crop, but scientists at the University of Virginia have come up with a compelling reason to get the invasive, fast-growing vine under control but quick.\u00a0 The team has found evidence that kudzu is a major contributor to surface ozone pollution. The [&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-578920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578920","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=578920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}