{"id":1166,"date":"2009-08-11T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2009-08-11T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T06:48:00","slug":"national-wind-solutions-nwnd-tries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/national-wind-solutions-nwnd-tries.html","title":{"rendered":"National Wind Solutions (NWND) Tries Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>US-based National Wind Solutions (NWND) has bought an undisclosed biodiesel plant in Texas for $3 million (\u20ac2.1 million) and has announced its intention to convert it to produce biodiesel from second-generation feedstock.<\/p>\n<p>After successfully producing soyabean biodiesel for commercial transportation uses, the plant was mothballed by its original producers because of the high cost of soyabeans.<\/p>\n<p>NWND intends to retrofit the plant with the necessary equipment to process second-generation feedstocks such as algae and jatropha into biodiesel. The company hopes that the ability to use a wide variety of feedstocks will inoculate it again price spikes in any one feedstock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofuels-news.com\/industry_news.php?item_id=1144\">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. US-based National Wind Solutions (NWND) has bought an undisclosed biodiesel plant in Texas for $3 million (\u20ac2.1 million) and has announced its intention to convert it to produce biodiesel from second-generation feedstock. After successfully producing soyabean biodiesel for commercial transportation uses, the plant was mothballed by its original producers because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-fuel-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","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=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}