{"id":61,"date":"2003-06-13T16:57:38","date_gmt":"2003-06-13T20:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2003-06-13T16:57:38","modified_gmt":"2003-06-13T20:57:38","slug":"move-over-dog-breath-cow-breaths-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/2003\/06\/13\/move-over-dog-breath-cow-breaths-in-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Move over Dog-breath, Cow-breath&#8217;s in town!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>(via <a href=\"\">Dave Barry<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>It turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/TECH\/science\/06\/13\/offbeat.cow.breath.ap\/index.html\">cows breathe out a *lot* of methane<\/a>, enough to account for 20% of the methane in the atmosphere &#8211; about 100-150 gallons per cow, per day.<\/p>\n<p>Biochemist Stephen Ragsdale at U-Nebraska is trying to develop a feed additive to reduce the problem. Besides reducing atmosperic methane, this may also save farmers money &#8211; about 16% of what cattle eat ends up just being used to produce methane.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they could just fit the cows with snorkels, and harvest the methane for power production. Gary Larsen, where are you when we need you?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Dave Barry) It turns out cows breathe out a *lot* of methane, enough to account for 20% of the methane in the atmosphere &#8211; about 100-150 gallons per cow, per day. Biochemist Stephen Ragsdale at U-Nebraska is trying to develop a feed additive to reduce the problem. Besides reducing atmosperic methane, this may also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}