{"id":12614,"date":"2023-02-05T00:23:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T00:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12614"},"modified":"2023-03-21T00:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:26:18","slug":"god-bless-manure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/02\/05\/god-bless-manure\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless Manure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/feb\/02\/manure-renewable-natural-gas-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brown gold: the great American manure rush begins<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/jessica-fu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jessica Fu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7578207be3f677a9587bbd60a1a197c8eaa86c57\/0_0_3937_2362\/master\/3937.jpg?width=465&amp;quality=85&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none\" alt=\"Illustration of a cow burping toxic gas and people wearing energy company logos picking up its manure\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hundreds of dairy farms across California have sold the rights to their manure to energy producers.\u00a0Illustration: Ricardo Cavolo\/The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The energy industry is turning waste from dairy farms into renewable natural gas \u2013 but will it actually reduce emissions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>O<\/strong>n an early August afternoon at Pinnacle Dairy, a farm located near the middle of California\u2019s long Central Valley, 1,300 Jersey cows idle in the shade of open-air barns. Above them whir fans the size of satellites, circulating a breeze as the temperature pushes 100F (38C). Underfoot, a wet layer of feces emits a thick stench that hangs in the air. Just a tad unpleasant, the smell represents a potential goldmine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The energy industry is transforming mounds of manure into a lucrative \u201ccarbon negative fuel\u201d capable of powering everything from municipal buses to cargo trucks. To do so, it\u2019s turning to dairy farms, which offer a reliable, long-term supply of the material. Pinnacle is just one of hundreds across the state that have recently sold the rights to their manure to energy producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/feb\/02\/manure-renewable-natural-gas-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian Brown gold: the great American manure rush begins by Jessica Fu The energy industry is turning waste from dairy farms into renewable natural gas \u2013 but will it actually reduce emissions? On an early August afternoon at Pinnacle Dairy, a farm located near the middle of California\u2019s long Central Valley, 1,300 Jersey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}