{"id":4555,"date":"2014-03-07T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2014-03-13T10:33:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:33:26","slug":"algae-as-fuel-viability-advances-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/algae-as-fuel-viability-advances-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae as Fuel Viability Advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>US &#8211; A team of Michigan State University scientists have invented a new technology that increases the odds of helping algae-based biofuels cross that gap and come closer to reality.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The current issue of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2211926414000071\" target=\"_blank\">Algal Research<\/a>\u00a0showcases the team\u2019s invention \u2014 the environmental photobioreactor. The ePBR system is the world\u2019s first standard algae growing platform, one that simulates dynamic natural environments.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, ePBR is a pond in a jar that helps identify, cultivate and test algal strains that have the potential to make the leap from lab to pond, proliferate in real-world, real-pond settings and produce the most oil.<\/p>\n<p>Many scientists around the globe are looking for strains of algae that could become a sustainable source of alternative energy. A vexing problem they face, however, is that algal strains that perform well in labs often get stomped when it\u2019s time to scale-up the experiment, said Ben Lucker, MSU research associate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.thefishsite.com\/fishnews\/22609\/algae-as-fuel-viability-advances#sthash.EXKsP4KP.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US &#8211; A team of Michigan State University scientists have invented a new technology that increases the odds of helping algae-based biofuels cross that gap and come closer to reality. The current issue of\u00a0Algal Research\u00a0showcases the team\u2019s invention \u2014 the environmental photobioreactor. The ePBR system is the world\u2019s first standard algae growing platform, one that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,615,591,576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae","category-research-2","category-united-states","category-university-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","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=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}