{"id":2448,"date":"2010-09-20T10:53:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T10:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2010-09-20T10:53:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T10:53:35","slug":"joule-unlimiteds-single-step-continuous-process-to-produce-biofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/joule-unlimiteds-single-step-continuous-process-to-produce-biofuels.html","title":{"rendered":"Joule Unlimited&#8217;s Single-Step, Continuous Process to Produce Biofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike traditional biofuel processes that require intermediates such as  sugar, algae, agricultural biomass or tallow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jouleunlimited.com\/\">Joule <\/a>is the first to  achieve and patent a direct, single-step, continuous process for the  production of hydrocarbon fuels requiring no raw material feedstocks.  The Cambridge, Massachusetts business claims this sets the stage for the  production of a liquid fossil fuel replacement at costs as low as $30  per barrel equivalent.<\/p>\n<p>Joule&#8217;s microorganisms function as  biocatalysts that use only sunlight, waste CO<sub>2<\/sub> and non-fresh  water to directly and continuously produce diesel-range hydrocarbons,  which are chemically distinct from biodiesel and are compatible with  existing supply infrastructure and combustion technology.<\/p>\n<p>The company claims the issuance of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/doSEuv\">patent<\/a>, the path for  large-scale renewable fuel production, addressing many of the cost,  resource and energy constraints, which typify existing liquid biofuel  production.<\/p>\n<p>Their patent can be obtained from this link &#8211;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/doSEuv\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/doSEuv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike traditional biofuel processes that require intermediates such as sugar, algae, agricultural biomass or tallow, Joule is the first to achieve and patent a direct, single-step, continuous process for the production of hydrocarbon fuels requiring no raw material feedstocks. The Cambridge, Massachusetts business claims this sets the stage for the production of a liquid fossil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,7],"tags":[639,640,158],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae","category-algae-biodiesel","tag-algae-biodiesel","tag-algae-fuel","tag-diesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}