{"id":1483,"date":"2010-03-22T07:29:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T07:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2010-03-22T07:29:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T07:29:34","slug":"seaweed-biofuel-company-seattle%e2%80%99s-bio-architecture-lab-struck-by-chile-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/seaweed-biofuel-company-seattle%e2%80%99s-bio-architecture-lab-struck-by-chile-quake.html","title":{"rendered":"Seaweed Biofuel Company, Seattle\u2019s Bio Architecture Lab, Struck by Chile Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle-based Bio Architecture Lab, a University of Washington spinoff that\u2019s developing microbes to turn seaweed into renewable fuel, has built a big part of its business on relationships in Chile. The company has an office in Santiago, and received part of its initial $8 million venture round from Santiago-based Austral Capital. A Chilean economic development group has poured in another $7 million, local university and oil industry partners are involved, and some permits have been issued to run a pilot project in Chile\u2019s coastal waters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately, BAL employees in Chile are safe and accounted for, which is the most important thing for us,\u201d says Niki Parekh, Bio Architecture Lab\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2010\/03\/03\/chile-earthquake-hits-home-for-seattle-cleantech-company-bio-architecture-lab\/\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle-based Bio Architecture Lab, a University of Washington spinoff that\u2019s developing microbes to turn seaweed into renewable fuel, has built a big part of its business on relationships in Chile. The company has an office in Santiago, and received part of its initial $8 million venture round from Santiago-based Austral Capital. A Chilean economic development [&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-1483","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\/1483","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=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}