{"id":3300,"date":"2005-05-23T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T18:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/23\/poop-power\/"},"modified":"2005-05-23T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T18:43:20","slug":"poop-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/poop-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Poop power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tVenture capital is so marvelous it can turn <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/venture\/225088_vc20.html?searchpagefrom=1&#038;searchdiff=4\">crap into gold:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A new Tukwila company has scored $8 million in financing to turn cow manure and trash into usable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Prometheus Energy Co., which has kept a low profile for the past two years, is developing a new technology that transforms the methane gas produced at landfills, cow pastures and coal mines into a substitute for diesel fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we do is take pollution and turn it into energy,&#8221; explained Daniel Clarkson, vice president of government and legal affairs at the startup. &#8220;We take waste gases &#8230; and through a freezing process turn that into liquid natural gas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In India they power stoves with methane from cow shit, but this process is much more exotic.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to reader Ruth for the tip.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital is so marvelous it can turn crap into gold: A new Tukwila company has scored $8 million in financing to turn cow manure and trash into usable energy. Prometheus Energy Co., which has kept a low profile for the past two years, is developing a new technology that transforms the methane gas produced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/poop-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poop power&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Re","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}