{"id":1847,"date":"2010-05-17T07:06:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T07:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2010-05-17T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T07:06:21","slug":"5-issues-with-algae-fuels-written-by-robert-rapier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/5-issues-with-algae-fuels-written-by-robert-rapier.html","title":{"rendered":"5 Issues with Algae Fuels Written by Robert Rapier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are 5 issues with Algae fuels that are covered in the book on jatropha and algae as fuel sources by Robert Rapier.<\/p>\n<p>1. The present cost of algae production from open ponds is too high to make fuel production economically viable.<\/p>\n<p>2. Photobioreactors (PBRs) are too expensive.<\/p>\n<p>3. The energy inputs into the algae production process are very high.<\/p>\n<p>4. Some algae don\u2019t need sunlight, and can produce oil in a fermentor.<\/p>\n<p>5. Don\u2019t believe the cited per acre yields that some proponents claim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oilprice.com\/Alternative-Energy\/Biofuels\/5-Issues-with-Algae-Fuels.html\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are 5 issues with Algae fuels that are covered in the book on jatropha and algae as fuel sources by Robert Rapier. 1. The present cost of algae production from open ponds is too high to make fuel production economically viable. 2. Photobioreactors (PBRs) are too expensive. 3. The energy inputs into the algae [&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-1847","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\/1847","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=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}