{"id":1421,"date":"2010-03-01T13:39:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2010-03-01T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:39:22","slug":"company-turning-waste-and-algae-into-fuel-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/company-turning-waste-and-algae-into-fuel-source.html","title":{"rendered":"Company Turning Waste and Algae into Fuel Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A company based in Clear Lake is turning waste and algae into renewable fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Bud Jermeland, 51, president of Energae LP, said the primary focuses of his company are waste-based ethanol and the use of algae in the making of ethanol for the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical markets.<\/p>\n<p>Energae is producing algae in South Carolina that will be used as a low-cost extract for alternative fuels. \u201cWe are committed to the fact that algae is the best long-term solution for biofuels \u2014 biodiesel in particular,\u201d said Jermeland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are several uses for algae that can be profitable in the short-term,\u201d said Jermeland. \u201cOne is gasification of the algae biomass and using the green fuels \u2014 the end product from that process \u2014 to power generators creating green electricity to sell on the grid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globegazette.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/25\/news\/latest\/doc4b875b42bc86f259321190.txt#vmix_media_id=11101189\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company based in Clear Lake is turning waste and algae into renewable fuels. Bud Jermeland, 51, president of Energae LP, said the primary focuses of his company are waste-based ethanol and the use of algae in the making of ethanol for the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical markets. Energae is producing algae in South Carolina that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-companies","category-algae-fuel-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","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=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}