{"id":469,"date":"2007-12-04T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/04\/prairie-grasses-can-run-your-c\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T16:42:50","slug":"prairie-grasses-can-run-your-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/prairie-grasses-can-run-your-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Prairie Grasses Can Run Your Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This topic is being discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/earth_to_kansas_come_in_please.php\">elsewhere<\/a>, so I thought I&#8217;d post something on it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Back to the future: Prairie grasses emerge as rich energy source<\/strong><em>Mixtures of grasses make best source of biofuel <\/em><em>By Deane MorrisonDec. 8, 2006<\/em>With shrinking glaciers and other signs of global warming upon us, the search is on for alternative fuels to stem the release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.This week a new contender burst on the scene: diverse mixtures of native prairie grasses. A University team led by David Tilman, Regents Professor of Ecology, found that these grasses yield more net energy than either ethanol from corn or &#8220;biodiesel&#8221; fuel from soybeans. Grass-based fuel can even lead to a net decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide, whereas ethanol and biodiesel increase it.The study is based on 10 years of work at the University&#8217;s Cedar Creek Natural History Area. Written by Tilman, postdoctoral researcher Jason Hill and research associate Clarence Lehman, it is the cover story in the Dec. 8 issue of the journal Science.<a href=\"http:\/\/www1.umn.edu\/umnnews\/Feature_Stories\/Back_to_the_future_prairie_grasses.html\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This topic is being discussed elsewhere, so I thought I&#8217;d post something on it: Back to the future: Prairie grasses emerge as rich energy sourceMixtures of grasses make best source of biofuel By Deane MorrisonDec. 8, 2006With shrinking glaciers and other signs of global warming upon us, the search is on for alternative fuels to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/prairie-grasses-can-run-your-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prairie Grasses Can Run Your Car<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}