{"id":506,"date":"2017-05-03T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/?p=506"},"modified":"2017-05-03T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:15:50","slug":"getting-from-greenhouse-gas-to-microbial-biomass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/2017\/05\/03\/getting-from-greenhouse-gas-to-microbial-biomass\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting from greenhouse gas to microbial biomass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science can now turn thin air into biomass &#8211; or, more specifically, turn greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) and methane (CH<sub>4<\/sub>) which are emitted as waste products of current energy production activities into biomass. This paper describes a process that captures methane from natural gas and biogas and uses photosynthesis to convert it into biomass feedstock. The energy-rich carbon is not dispersed into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas, but converted to useful products. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emsl.pnnl.gov\/emslweb\/news\/getting-greenhouse-gas-microbial-biomass\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science can now turn thin air into biomass &#8211; or, more specifically, turn greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) which are emitted as waste products of current energy production activities into biomass. This paper describes a process that captures methane from natural gas and biogas and uses photosynthesis to convert it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/2017\/05\/03\/getting-from-greenhouse-gas-to-microbial-biomass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting from greenhouse gas to microbial biomass&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[517518],"tags":[1015223,1015224,69],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-c1","tag-gas-to-mass","tag-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6z7by-8a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/adnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}