{"id":3075,"date":"2011-03-22T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2011-03-22T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:05:04","slug":"biofuel-from-algae-could-compete-with-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/biofuel-from-algae-could-compete-with-oil.html","title":{"rendered":"Biofuel From Algae Could Compete With Oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biofuels made from algae can be produced in a way that make this energy source cost-competitive with crude oil by increasing the amount of energy algae stores as fat, according to early research from VG Energy,\u00a0an alternative energy and agricultural biotech company. The resulting biodiesel and algae-based jet fuels could be produced at a cost of $94 per barrel, well below the current crude oil price of above $100 a barrel,\u00a0according to the report by Viral Genetics, of which VG Energy is a subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p>See more at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/eco-nomics\/2011\/03\/16\/biofuel-from-algae-could-compete-with-oil-report-says\/\"><strong>http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/eco-nomics\/2011\/03\/16\/biofuel-from-algae-could-compete-with-oil-report-says\/<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biofuels made from algae can be produced in a way that make this energy source cost-competitive with crude oil by increasing the amount of energy algae stores as fat, according to early research from VG Energy,\u00a0an alternative energy and agricultural biotech company. The resulting biodiesel and algae-based jet fuels could be produced at a cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}