{"id":2849,"date":"2008-03-02T14:40:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T22:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/03\/02\/14\/40\/heavy-mixer\/"},"modified":"2008-03-02T14:40:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T22:40:55","slug":"heavy-mixer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/03\/02\/14\/40\/heavy-mixer\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Mixer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/na\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10766882\">[Florida&#8217;s] first ethanol-production factory put in a request for 400,000 gallons (1.5m litres) a day of city water. The request by US Envirofuels would make the facility one of [Tampa&#8217;s] top ten water consumers overnight, and the company plans to double its size. Florida is suffering from a prolonged drought. Rivers and lakes are at record lows and residents wonder where the extra water will come from &#8230; using farmland for ethanol pushes up food prices internationally (world wheat prices rose 25% this week alone &#8230; A typical ethanol factory producing 50m gallons of biofuels a year needs about 500 gallons of water a minute.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Florida&#8217;s] first ethanol-production factory put in a request for 400,000 gallons (1.5m litres) a day of city water. The request by US Envirofuels would make the facility one of [Tampa&#8217;s] top ten water consumers&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,317,425,581,580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethanol","category-florida","category-peak-oil","category-tampa","category-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}