{"id":797,"date":"2010-03-29T03:05:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T03:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/?p=797"},"modified":"2010-03-29T03:05:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T03:05:14","slug":"blood-guts-feathers-biodiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/2010\/03\/29\/blood-guts-feathers-biodiesel\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood + Guts + Feathers = Biodiesel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Conant<\/p>\n<p>As environmentalists continue to follow the model of &#8216;reduce, reuse, and recycle&#8217; scientists continue to find ways of recycling waste products.\u00a0 One of the newest developments in the recycling aspect of the slogan involves turning chicken feather meal into biodiesel fuel.\u00a0 It is estimated that there is 11 billion pounds of poultry waste that is produced annually and just accumulates.\u00a0 This is because chicken feathers are not able to be stuffed into pillows, so the feathers as well as the other waste products (the innards and blood) are turned into a low-grade animal feed.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/advocacy.britannica.com\/blog\/advocacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/chickens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chickens\" src=\"http:\/\/advocacy.britannica.com\/blog\/advocacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/chickens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The potential fuel source pre-dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scientists in Nevada paid attention to the fact that chicken meal has a fat content of 12%.\u00a0 To remove the fat from the chicken meal the meal is put in boiling water and then the fat is processed into biodiesel fuel.\u00a0 This process is advantageous for the obvious environmental reason of providing another source of alternative fuel,\u00a0 but by removing the fat from the chicken meal it actually makes the animal feed remains a higher grade and it also turns the chicken meal into being a better fertilizer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Based on the scientists production methods and the annual amount of chicken meal produced on a yearly basis it is estimated that within the U.S.\u00a0153 million gallons of biodiesel fuel could be made.\u00a0 On a global scale there would be potential for creating 593 million gallons of biodiesel.\u00a0 Although this is an outstanding number, it is relatively small compared to the amount of fuel consumed on a yearly basis which stands around 4 billion gallons.\u00a0 Nonetheless, it is important for developments to continue in areas of recycling waste products.\u00a0 If more developments are made, the millions of gallons will slowly add up and present themselves as a viable fuel alternative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternative-energy-news.info\/fuel-from-chicken-feathers\/\">http:\/\/www.alternative-energy-news.info\/fuel-from-chicken-feathers\/<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternative-energy-news.info\/fuel-from-chicken-feathers\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Conant As environmentalists continue to follow the model of &#8216;reduce, reuse, and recycle&#8217; scientists continue to find ways of recycling waste products.\u00a0 One of the newest developments in the recycling aspect of the slogan involves turning chicken feather meal into biodiesel fuel.\u00a0 It is estimated that there is 11 billion pounds of poultry waste &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/2010\/03\/29\/blood-guts-feathers-biodiesel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blood + Guts + Feathers = Biodiesel?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2094,2362,2365,2363,2364],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biodiesel","tag-chicken","tag-fuel","tag-recycling","tag-reuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}