{"id":4004,"date":"2013-05-28T03:10:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T03:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2013-05-28T03:10:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T03:10:29","slug":"united-states-has-a-capacity-to-produce-25-billion-gallons-of-algae-fuels-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/united-states-has-a-capacity-to-produce-25-billion-gallons-of-algae-fuels-per-year.html","title":{"rendered":"United States has a Capacity to Produce 25 Billion Gallons of Algae Fuels per Year !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Studies from the\u00a0Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) reveal that\u00a0the U.S. has the capacity to support the production of up to \u00a0<strong>25 billion gallons of algae biofuel per year<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 one twelfth of the entire country\u2019s fuel needs<\/p>\n<p>The laboratory&#8217;s estimate was based on available land and water resources that resulted in \u00a0positive and negative insights. The study done by PNNL \u00a0involved growing algae in open-air, large, shallow ponds. \u00a0The areas that they chose to grow algae was the Gulf Coast ans the Southeastern Seaboard.<\/p>\n<p>These two areas were chosen since they had \u00a0a good\u00a0fuel processing infrastructure, abundant water source, and warm, humid climate, PNNL\u2019s estimate factored in sea water as well as salty groundwater.<\/p>\n<p>For water with high salinity, there is an option to cultivate salt-friendly strains of algae, and the availability of solar powered desalination technology\u00a0has made converting salt water to fresh water a more cost-efficient task.<\/p>\n<p>More &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bionews-tx.com\/news\/2013\/05\/24\/algae-biofuel-industry-plans-conflict-with-several-studies-and-issues\/\">http:\/\/bionews-tx.com\/news\/2013\/05\/24\/algae-biofuel-industry-plans-conflict-with-several-studies-and-issues\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies from the\u00a0Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) reveal that\u00a0the U.S. has the capacity to support the production of up to \u00a025 billion gallons of algae biofuel per year\u00a0\u2014 one twelfth of the entire country\u2019s fuel needs The laboratory&#8217;s estimate was based on available land and water resources that resulted in \u00a0positive and negative insights. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,54,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae","category-algae-oil-production","category-algae-cultivation-biofuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004","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=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}