{"id":134690,"date":"2022-01-26T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/banana-split-extracting-hydrogen-fuel-from-banana-peels"},"modified":"2022-01-26T08:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:23:01","slug":"banana-split-extracting-hydrogen-fuel-from-banana-peels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/banana-split-extracting-hydrogen-fuel-from-banana-peels","title":{"rendered":"Banana Split: Extracting Hydrogen Fuel From Banana Peels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/banana-split-extracting-hydrogen-fuel-from-banana-peels2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the world\u2019s energy demands increase, so does our consumption of fossil fuels. The result is a massive rise in greenhouse gases emissions with severely adverse environmental effects. To address this, scientists have been searching for alternative, renewable sources of energy.<\/p>\n<p>A main candidate is hydrogen produced from organic waste, or \u201cbiomass,\u201d of plants and animals. Biomass also absorbs, removes, and stores CO<sub>2<\/sub> from the atmosphere, while biomass decomposition can also bring us ways to negative emissions or greenhouse gases removal. But even though biomass heralds a way forward, there is still the question of the best way to maximize its conversion into energy.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently two main methods for converting biomass into energy: gasification and pyrolysis. Gasification puts solid or liquid biomass at temperatures around 1000\u00b0C, converting it into gas and solid compounds; the gas is called \u201csyngas\u201d while the solid is \u201cbiochar.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world\u2019s energy demands increase, so does our consumption of fossil fuels. The result is a massive rise in greenhouse gases emissions with severely adverse environmental effects. To address this, scientists have been searching for alternative, renewable sources of energy. A main candidate is hydrogen produced from organic waste, or \u201cbiomass,\u201d of plants and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}