{"id":220444,"date":"2025-08-19T20:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/us-reactor-turns-cow-manure-into-jet-fuel-at-fraction-of-normal-cost"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:09:02","slug":"us-reactor-turns-cow-manure-into-jet-fuel-at-fraction-of-normal-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/us-reactor-turns-cow-manure-into-jet-fuel-at-fraction-of-normal-cost","title":{"rendered":"US reactor turns cow manure into jet fuel at fraction of normal cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f2LDX2ClUiM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>US startup turns cow manure into jet fuel in a move to reshape renewable energy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Interestingly, the reactor does it all at just 1\/100th the capital cost of conventional systems. The dramatic reduction in capital expenditure could make on-site fuel production a realistic prospect for individual farms.<\/p>\n<p>Over 20,000 large livestock farms in the U.S. produce nearly a trillion pounds of manure annually, but less than 6% capture the biogas from this waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarmers in the U.S. and around the world are sitting on an untapped goldmine. We\u2019re giving them the ability to turn waste into a profitable product that airlines desperately need,\u201d said Dr. Stephen Beaton, CEO and Founder of Circularity Fuels, in the press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US startup turns cow manure into jet fuel in a move to reshape renewable energy. Interestingly, the reactor does it all at just 1\/100th the capital cost of conventional systems. The dramatic reduction in capital expenditure could make on-site fuel production a realistic prospect for individual farms. Over 20,000 large livestock farms in the U.S. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220444","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}