{"id":688870,"date":"2010-03-11T16:21:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T20:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2010-03-11T16:21:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T20:21:25","slug":"reading-tea-leaves-future-biofuels-in-the-bottom-of-a-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/688870","title":{"rendered":"Reading Tea Leaves: Future Biofuels in the Bottom of a Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5868 aligncenter\" title=\"Tea_Cup_Leaves\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/03\/Tea_Cup_Leaves.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here in the US, tea is essentially a niche product, falling way behind <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/11\/would-you-like-a-coffee-to-go-scirocco-ccino-storms-europe\/\" >coffee<\/a> in terms of popularity. But in places like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1iverating.com\/top\/678\/\" >Middle East, Europe, and Asia<\/a>, tea far surpasses coffee as a national past time. In 2008 alone, the world production of black tea was more than 3.8 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, all those spent tea leaves and remaining liquid are tossed out with the trash, but now two Pakistani researchers have decided to tackle what they perceived as a waste of resources, and have figured out how to completely recycle the leftover tea and tea leaves into biodiesel, ethanol, methane, propane, fertilizer and even chemical spill absorbent.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty ingenious if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/11\/reading-tea-leaves-future-biofuels-in-the-bottom-of-a-cup\/#more-5864\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the US, tea is essentially a niche product, falling way behind coffee in terms of popularity. But in places like the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, tea far surpasses coffee as a national past time. In 2008 alone, the world production of black tea was more than 3.8 million tons. Typically, all those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2TcO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}