{"id":1253,"date":"2009-01-24T04:49:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T09:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2009-01-24T04:49:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T09:49:56","slug":"are-they-spherical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1253","title":{"rendered":"Are They Spherical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/News\/NationalNews\/Scientists-make-virtual-cows-to-research-methane-emissions\/tabid\/423\/articleID\/87331\/cat\/64\/Default.aspx\">Scientists make virtual cows to research methane emissions<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs the materials ferment you end up with what we call the poo jars. That is as technical as an engineer would want to get,\u201d says Wood.<\/p>\n<p>Methane gas emissions are monitored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time the little unit here flicks, we count the flicks for the amount of gas produced,\u201d says Wood.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the methane that cows release comes from an unexpected source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCows don\u2019t fart methane. 99% of the methane comes from their mouth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists make virtual cows to research methane emissions \u201cAs the materials ferment you end up with what we call the poo jars. That is as technical as an engineer would want to get,\u201d says Wood. Methane gas emissions are monitored. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}