{"id":1015,"date":"2009-04-12T03:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2009-04-12T03:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T03:19:00","slug":"iowa-approves-2-million-for-algae-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/iowa-approves-2-million-for-algae-fuel.html","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Approves $2 Million for Algae Fuel Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa energy officials have approved more than $2 million for an effort to grow algae at a southwest Iowa ethanol plant and use the material to make fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-member Iowa Power Fund Board approved the $2,085,000 grant to assist in the commercialization of algae production technology.<\/p>\n<p>The project by BioProcessAlgae LLC, is a joint effort by Omaha, Neb.-based Green Plains Renewable Energy and three other companies.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Poor, corporate counsel for Green Plains, said the research and development grant will fund an algae production project at the company&#8217;s Shenandoah, Iowa, ethanol plant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a great deal of synergy between ethanol production and algae production,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The algae can utilize the carbon dioxide, water and heat from the ethanol plant, so some of the key inputs for algae production are already available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Lynch, the chief executive of BioProcessAlgae, said the company will test its photobioreactor design in hopes of commercializing the algae production process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/articles\/science\/2009\/04\/11\/iowa-approves-2-million-for-algae-fuel-project.html\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. Iowa energy officials have approved more than $2 million for an effort to grow algae at a southwest Iowa ethanol plant and use the material to make fuel. The 18-member Iowa Power Fund Board approved the $2,085,000 grant to assist in the commercialization of algae production technology. The project by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-companies","category-algae-energy-investments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}