{"id":1451,"date":"2010-03-15T12:06:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T12:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2010-03-15T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T12:06:06","slug":"local-innovators-explore-algae-as-a-fuel-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/local-innovators-explore-algae-as-a-fuel-source.html","title":{"rendered":"Local Innovators Explore Algae as a Fuel Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Attleboro  in November, Comey started growing a tray full of cyclotella cryptica, a  strain of algae native to Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the  group\u2019s shoestring budget has lacked the money for the microscope and  centrifuge Comey needs to quantify the growing results.<\/p>\n<p>But a  winter\u2019s worth of experiments has yielded promising results with the  growing environment for the algae \u2014 a solar greenhouse that uses no  conventional fuel.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Comey will travel to the New  England Food Show in Boston to try to sell the greenhouse design to  vegetable growers as an affordable way to produce herbs and other crops  they might sell to restaurants in the winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/news\/environment\/content\/ALGAE3_03-14-10_T4HKVAR_v35.37cfa0d.html\">See more <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the  innovators, greenhouse sales would help finance the equipment necessary  for the algae experiments, Comey said.<\/p>\n<p>See more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Attleboro in November, Comey started growing a tray full of cyclotella cryptica, a strain of algae native to Martha\u2019s Vineyard. So far, the group\u2019s shoestring budget has lacked the money for the microscope and centrifuge Comey needs to quantify the growing results. But a winter\u2019s worth of experiments has yielded promising results with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-fuel-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}