{"id":443,"date":"2007-04-20T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2007-04-20T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T18:34:00","slug":"pond-powered-biofuels-turning-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/pond-powered-biofuels-turning-algae.html","title":{"rendered":"Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America&#8217;s New Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>. See the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/dir\/dir.html\">complete list of Oilgae Blog articles<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know that <b>oil derived from algae<\/b> is an exciting renewable fuel possibility? &#8211; see <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/\">Oilgae<\/a><\/b> for more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America&#8217;s New Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Amanda Leigh Haag, March 29, 2007 @ Popular Mechanics<\/p>\n<p>Using a complex photosynthetic process, breakthrough innovators have developed biodiesel and ethanol from an unlikely source that can double its output overnight and just might help give alternative energy the bump it needs: little green goo.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, Colorado-based inventor Jim Sears began tinkering with a design to mass-produce biofuel. His feedstock (algae) may have struck soybean farmers as a laughable gamble. But the experiment worked, and today, Sears\u2019 company, Solix Biofuels in Fort Collins, is among several startups betting their futures on the powers of algae, says this article from Popular Mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/earth\/4213775.html\">full article<\/a> from here @ PM<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color:red;\">Nature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/oil\/or\/or.html\">gave us<\/a> oil from algae; perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/story\/story.html\">we should try<\/a> Nature&#8217;s way again<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/\">Oilgae<\/a><\/b><br \/><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>; <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/dir\/dir.html\">List of Oilgae Blog articles<\/a><\/b>.<br \/><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/algae\/oil\/biod\/research\/os\/algos.html\">algOS &#8211; Biodiesel from Algae Open Source<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>About Oilgae &#8211; <b>Oilgae<\/b> has a focus on biodiesel production from algae while also discussing alternative energy in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Do you know that oil derived from algae is an exciting renewable fuel possibility? &#8211; see Oilgae for more. Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America&#8217;s New Energy By Amanda Leigh Haag, March 29, 2007 @ Popular Mechanics Using a complex photosynthetic process, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-investments","category-algae-energy-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}