{"id":860,"date":"2007-02-20T21:29:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T02:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/recycling-garbage-into-energy\/"},"modified":"2007-02-20T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T02:29:21","slug":"recycling-garbage-into-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/recycling-garbage-into-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling garbage into energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a very cool article the other day about how a process exists to basically vaporize garbage into atoms, with the byproducts a molten-glass slurry and a gas that be used to produce hydrogen.  In other words, it&#8217;s one of those things that sounds too good to be true.  Anyway, if it does turn out that it&#8217;s reasonable it would change the world.\u00c2\u00a0 Landfills would produce energy and cities wouldn&#8217;t have garbage problems anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s definitely a great dream, if it works.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/science\/873aae7bf86c0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html\">Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robertwilsonphoto.com\/\">Wilson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/angied.wordpress.com\/\">Angie<\/a> should be happy with it, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a very cool article the other day about how a process exists to basically vaporize garbage into atoms, with the byproducts a molten-glass slurry and a gas that be used to produce hydrogen. In other words, it&#8217;s one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/recycling-garbage-into-energy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon","category-news","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-dS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}