{"id":1946,"date":"2010-07-12T11:37:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2010-07-12T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T11:37:12","slug":"the-return-of-fed-funded-algae-fuel-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/the-return-of-fed-funded-algae-fuel-research.html","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Fed-Funded Algae Fuel Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aquatic Species Program was launched in 1978 by president Jimmy  Carter to explore the potential of algae as an energy source. About $25  million was put into the program until it was shelved by the Clinton  administration in 1996.\u00a0 They never found the &#8216;lipid trigger&#8217; &#8212; the  trick to making the organisms produce lipids capable of being turned  into biofuels in a high-volume low cost manner.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the  investment of up to  $24 million for three research groups to tackle key  hurdles in the  commercialization of algae-based biofuels.<\/p>\n<p>The  funded groups consist  of partners from academia, national labs and  private  industry that are based across the country, with projects  expected to continue for a period of three years.<\/p>\n<p>The  three consortia selected for funding are:<\/p>\n<p>Sustainable  Algal  Biofuels Consortium (Mesa, Arizona): Led by Arizona State  University,  this consortium will focus on testing the acceptability of  algal  biofuels as replacements for petroleum-based fuels. Tasks include   investigating biochemical conversion of algae to fuels and products,  and  analyzing physical chemistry properties of algal fuels and fuel   intermediates (DOE share: up to $6 million).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/the-return-of-fed-funded-algae-fuels\/\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aquatic Species Program was launched in 1978 by president Jimmy Carter to explore the potential of algae as an energy source. About $25 million was put into the program until it was shelved by the Clinton administration in 1996.\u00a0 They never found the &#8216;lipid trigger&#8217; &#8212; the trick to making the organisms produce lipids [&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-1946","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\/1946","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=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}