{"id":1051,"date":"2009-05-05T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2009-05-05T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T05:15:00","slug":"bionavitas-devised-way-to-grow-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/bionavitas-devised-way-to-grow-algae.html","title":{"rendered":"Bionavitas Devised a Way to Grow Algae Thick Within Ponds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bionavitas, a Redmond-based company developing ways to grow algae to create biofuels, nutritional supplements and an environmentally friendly way to clean up pollution.Bionavitas is self-funded by its founders, and several angel investors also have provided funding.The company&#8217;s leaders say they are looking for outside investors \u2014 including venture capitalists \u2014 and hoping for money from the federal economic-stimulus package.<\/p>\n<p>Bionavitas proposes to place thin glass rods inside a pond or container and let light from the surface travel down the rod.Each rod transmits solar energy beneath the surface, allowing algae to grow at depths otherwise darkened by surface-growing organisms.<\/p>\n<p>Bionavitas said it hopes to sell its light technology to other firms producing algae for biofuel.<\/p>\n<p>It also plans to use the light rods itself for growing algae that can soak up heavy metals and other contaminants at old mining sites.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2009168062_algae04.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. Bionavitas, a Redmond-based company developing ways to grow algae to create biofuels, nutritional supplements and an environmentally friendly way to clean up pollution.Bionavitas is self-funded by its founders, and several angel investors also have provided funding.The company&#8217;s leaders say they are looking for outside investors \u2014 including venture capitalists \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-cultivation-open-pond","category-algae-energy-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","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=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}