{"id":1146,"date":"2009-07-29T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2009-07-29T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T05:18:00","slug":"joule-biotechnologies-uses-engineered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/joule-biotechnologies-uses-engineered.html","title":{"rendered":"Joule Biotechnologies Uses Engineered Organism for Fuel Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joulebio.com\">Joule Biotechnologies<\/a> has developed a hybrid system that uses a solar concentrating converter that is filled with brackish water, nutrients and a \u201chighly engineered synthetic organism,\u201d to produce a bio-based fuel. The solar system, called a HelioCulture, concentrates sunlight onto the mixture, and the engineered photosynthetic organism (not algae) which converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into ethanol or a hydrocarbon-based fuel called a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joulebio.com\/why-solar-fuel\/overview\">SolarFuel<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bill Sims, CEO of the company says cellulosic ethanol can produce 2,000 gallons per acre per year, while Joule\u2019s SolarFuels can produce 20,000 gallons per acre per year.<\/p>\n<p>The company hopes to break ground on a pilot plant in 2010, and a commercial-scale plant in either late 2011 or early 2012. Sims says the company had been in stealth mode until now in order to protect the company\u2019s \u201crevolutionary\u201d concept.<\/p>\n<p>See more: <a href=\"http:\/\/earth2tech.com\/2009\/07\/26\/the-solar-biofuel-hybrid-joule-biotechnologies-launches\/\">earth2tech.com<\/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 company Joule Biotechnologies has developed a hybrid system that uses a solar concentrating converter that is filled with brackish water, nutrients and a \u201chighly engineered synthetic organism,\u201d to produce a bio-based fuel. The solar system, called a HelioCulture, concentrates sunlight onto the mixture, and the engineered photosynthetic organism (not [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","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=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}