{"id":1449,"date":"2010-03-15T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2010-03-15T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:57:15","slug":"doe-scientist-lin-researches-algae-for-biodiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/doe-scientist-lin-researches-algae-for-biodiesel.html","title":{"rendered":"DOE Scientist Lin Researches Algae for Biodiesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lin is a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Ames  Laboratory and a professor of chemistry at Iowa State University. He has  been teaching and conducting research in Ames since the fall of 1999. Lin was named ISU\u2019s next John D. Corbett Professor in Chemistry,  an endowed professorship awarded for a three-year period, which pays  $100,000 each year.<\/p>\n<p>Lin said the amount of biofuels needed to replace petroleum could  be produced by extracting it from algae, and it would only use 2.2  percent of the crop space\u00a0 used by corn and soybeans in the United  States.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Petrich, chair of ISU\u2019s chemistry department, said  he thinks Lin\u2019s research in this area is going to be very influential in  coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Lin also is helping to spur the biofuel effort through a  company he founded called Catilin, which provides new technologies for  biodiesel production.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amestrib.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/14\/ames_tribune\/news\/doc4b9c4fbacf0fc312225865.txt\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lin is a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Ames Laboratory and a professor of chemistry at Iowa State University. He has been teaching and conducting research in Ames since the fall of 1999. Lin was named ISU\u2019s next John D. Corbett Professor in Chemistry, an endowed professorship awarded for a three-year period, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","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=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}