{"id":1111,"date":"2009-06-13T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2009-06-13T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T03:24:00","slug":"welsh-assembly-government-supports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/welsh-assembly-government-supports.html","title":{"rendered":"The Welsh Assembly Government Supports Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The Welsh Assembly Government (press release) is supporting a trial looking at how to use algae to feed off liquid digestate by-products from anaerobic digestion plants. It has given a \u00a350,000 grant to community group Merlin Bio-developments to investigate the potential to further reduce the carbon footprint of AD facilities by using the liquid residues from the plants to encourage algae farming. Merlin Bio-developments said the algae could be used to capture carbon dioxide emitted from the AD process.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, anaerobic digestion plants turn organic waste into bio-gas, a renewable source of energy. These plants are to play a major role in energy production in the coming years. As well as producing clean energy, the plants produce a by-product called \u2018digestate\u2019 that can be used as compost and a liquid fertiliser.   The Assembly Government wants to see if extracts from the liquid element of this digestate can be used to grow algae, and potentially create a whole new market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyworld.com\/rea\/news\/article\/2009\/06\/is-the-future-of-biofuels-in-algae\">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. The Welsh Assembly Government (press release) is supporting a trial looking at how to use algae to feed off liquid digestate by-products from anaerobic digestion plants. It has given a \u00a350,000 grant to community group Merlin Bio-developments to investigate the potential to further reduce the carbon footprint of AD facilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-co2-capture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","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=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}