{"id":3858,"date":"2012-04-25T05:56:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T05:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2012-04-25T05:56:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T05:56:44","slug":"nova-scotia-start-up-wins-clean-tech-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/nova-scotia-start-up-wins-clean-tech-competition.html","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia Start-up Wins Clean Tech Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halifax-based\u00a0start-up\u00a0SABRTech , has won the Nova Scotia Clean Tech Open, for developing technology to mass produce microalgae for fuel and other products. SABRTech was awarded\u00a0awarded $100,000 in cash, a $200,000 negotiable seed investment, and in-kind business building services. The company is\u00a0setting up a lab and working on a micro-algal bioreactor that effectively produces micro-algal biomass at an industrial level. SABRTech&#8217;s CEO Mather Carscallen is aiming at the production of algae-based aviation fuels in a large scale and \u00a0he hopes that the funding will help him in making the dreams a reality.<\/p>\n<p>The company is now working to create a prototype and Carscallen hopes to have a commercial facility in three years. He added,\u00a0\u201cOur technology marks a new beginning for micro-algal biofuels, one that is not just cheaper or easier to maintain, but that reduces the number of steps needed from actually growing to harvesting the oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/business\/89791-halifax-firm-behind-green-fuel-wins-clean-competition\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halifax-based\u00a0start-up\u00a0SABRTech , has won the Nova Scotia Clean Tech Open, for developing technology to mass produce microalgae for fuel and other products. SABRTech was awarded\u00a0awarded $100,000 in cash, a $200,000 negotiable seed investment, and in-kind business building services. The company is\u00a0setting up a lab and working on a micro-algal bioreactor that effectively produces micro-algal biomass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,7,56,5,6],"tags":[471,415,472],"class_list":["post-3858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-energy","category-algae-energy-companies","category-algae-energy-investments","tag-cleantech-competition","tag-nova-scotia","tag-sabrtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}