{"id":1500,"date":"2010-03-25T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T13:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T13:31:41","slug":"eads-backs-algae-as-future-biofuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/eads-backs-algae-as-future-biofuel.html","title":{"rendered":"EADS Backs Algae as Future Biofuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus parent company EADS is backing algae as the best source of sustainable jet fuel, arguing that other feedstocks will not allow the airline industry to meet its carbon-footprint reduction goals.<\/p>\n<p>EADS Chief Technical Officer Jean Botti does not believe second-generation, plant-derived biofuels now under development offer sufficient life-cycle, carbon-dioxide reductions to replace petroleum-based jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not see today a real Plan B to replace kerosene,\u201d he says. \u201cWe absolutely need to push third-generation biofuels made from algae.\u201d Proponents argue only algae can be produced without competing with food for land or water.<a href=\"http:\/\/bioenergy.checkbiotech.org\/news\/eads_backs_algae_future_biofuel\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bioenergy.checkbiotech.org\/news\/eads_backs_algae_future_biofuel\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus parent company EADS is backing algae as the best source of sustainable jet fuel, arguing that other feedstocks will not allow the airline industry to meet its carbon-footprint reduction goals. EADS Chief Technical Officer Jean Botti does not believe second-generation, plant-derived biofuels now under development offer sufficient life-cycle, carbon-dioxide reductions to replace petroleum-based jet [&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-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","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=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}