{"id":140,"date":"2009-04-24T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2009-04-24T15:22:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:22:49","slug":"biofuel-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/biofuel-skepticism\/","title":{"rendered":"biofuel skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2008\/04\/algae-fuel-biof.html\">Biofuel skepticism<\/a> &#8212; both cellulose alcohol and algae &#8212; albeit from a source with an obvious (and stated) agenda.  While I&#8217;m skeptical of these skeptics&#8217; agenda, the environmental and political problems that have resulted from pushing first-generation biofuels (corn ethanol, palm oil) <a href=\"http:\/\/ecoble.com\/2008\/09\/26\/the-tyranny-of-king-corn-part-1\/\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landcoalition.org\/cpl-blog\/?p=779\">abroad<\/a> suggest that its worth at least listening to the skeptics while architects push ahead with <a href=\"http:\/\/bustler.net\/index.php\/article\/winners_in_flip_a_strip_mall_redesign_contest_announced\/\">work<\/a> that incorporates these technologies, regardless of whether these particular forms of biofuels prove workable over the long-term or not.<\/p>\n<p><em>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/pruned.blogspot.com\">Pruned<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biofuel skepticism &#8212; both cellulose alcohol and algae &#8212; albeit from a source with an obvious (and stated) agenda. While I&#8217;m skeptical of these skeptics&#8217; agenda, the environmental and political problems that have resulted from pushing first-generation biofuels (corn ethanol, palm oil) here and abroad suggest that its worth at least listening to the skeptics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[50,852,51],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-biofuels","tag-energy","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}