{"id":1526,"date":"2010-04-01T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2010-04-01T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:29:46","slug":"newcastle-university-researches-algae-biofuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/newcastle-university-researches-algae-biofuel.html","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle University Researches Algae Biofuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the Carbon Trust, nine research institutions in the UK  will look at ways of cultivating billions of litres of biofuel generated  from algae.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle University is hosting one of the main  research projects, looking at the generation and extraction of the fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Adam Harvey, from the university&#8217;s School of Chemical  Engineering and Advanced Materials, explained: &#8220;The trouble with algae  is that you have a small amount of it in a vast excess of water so at  the moment we use an awful lot of energy boiling off the water to get to  the plant oil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that the amount of energy used for  extraction &#8220;can outweigh what you get back upon combustion&#8221;, meaning  that this is not currently a viable source of fuel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energysavingtrust.org.uk\/Resources\/Energy-saving-news\/New-Technology-Innovation\/Algae-biofuel-research-commences\/%28energysavingtrust%29\/588632\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the Carbon Trust, nine research institutions in the UK will look at ways of cultivating billions of litres of biofuel generated from algae. Newcastle University is hosting one of the main research projects, looking at the generation and extraction of the fuel. Dr Adam Harvey, from the university&#8217;s School of Chemical Engineering and [&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-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","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=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}