{"id":1186,"date":"2009-08-28T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2009-08-28T03:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T03:44:00","slug":"algae-may-play-key-role-on-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/algae-may-play-key-role-on-vermont.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae May Play Key Role on Vermont farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>A pilot project is underway in Vermont. Testing whether algae along with milfoil, an invasive water weed, can generate energy on farms. This system builds on cow power- recycling even more of the waste to grow the algae.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Hoffman is busy growing the farm&#8217;s newest crop inside a small greenhouse at the Blue Spruce farm in Bridport, Vermont. Hoffman is managing this project for Algepower- a Montpelier company that has developed and patented a photobioreactor to cultivate algae as a fuel and food source.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/report\/wastewater_treatment\/wastewater_treatment.html\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/images\/waste_water_banner.gif\" \/><br \/><\/a><br \/><\/center><br \/>The project is being funded in part by Central Vermont Public Service- Vermont&#8217;s largest utility.<br \/>CVPS is pursuing a number of clean energy initiatives- including it&#8217;s largest &#8211; cow power &#8211; which enables farms to turn cow manure into energy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/necn.com\/Boston\/Business\/2009\/07\/15\/Algae-may-play-key-role-on\/1247700676.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. A pilot project is underway in Vermont. Testing whether algae along with milfoil, an invasive water weed, can generate energy on farms. This system builds on cow power- recycling even more of the waste to grow the algae. Mark Hoffman is busy growing the farm&#8217;s newest crop inside a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-cultivation-sewage","category-algae-energy-companies","category-algae-photobioreactor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","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=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}