{"id":503,"date":"2020-08-14T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2020-08-14T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T13:03:27","slug":"the-blue-whirl-a-new-way-to-burn-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/the-blue-whirl-a-new-way-to-burn-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"The blue whirl &#8212; a new way to burn fossil fuels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Maryland have discovered a new type of flame that might be able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/video-bizarre-flame-is-the-future-of-low-emissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burn fossil fuels without producing soot<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very interesting development, and I find it somewhat surprising that we&#8217;re still discovering things like this. You&#8217;d think we would already know a lot about fire and combustion, but &#8230; who knows what&#8217;s lurking out there, yet to be discovered. <\/p>\n<p>The reaction from environmentalists will be telling. You would hope they would say, &#8220;Great! We can reduce pollution from fossil fuels!&#8221; But the more likely reaction will be, &#8220;This is awful. It minimizes the incentive to shift away from fossil fuels, and just keeps that awful industry going.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Maryland have discovered a new type of flame that might be able to burn fossil fuels without producing soot. It&#8217;s a very interesting development, and I find it somewhat surprising that we&#8217;re still discovering things like this. You&#8217;d think we would already know a lot about fire and combustion, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/the-blue-whirl-a-new-way-to-burn-fossil-fuels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The blue whirl &#8212; a new way to burn fossil fuels?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}