{"id":4731,"date":"2014-07-06T07:08:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T07:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2014-09-04T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T09:31:09","slug":"algae-industry-of-san-diego-struggles-to-float-on-fuel-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/algae-industry-of-san-diego-struggles-to-float-on-fuel-alone.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae Industry of San Diego Struggles To Float On Fuel Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/images-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5038\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/images-4.jpg\" alt=\"images (4)\" width=\"231\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>Any surprises here?<\/p>\n<p>You could be in San Diego, or you could be in Mars for all algae cares, but you won&#8217;t be able to\u00a0survive on trying to make fuel from algae.<\/p>\n<p>Not yet, mates, not yet.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting article that details the travails of the algae fuel industry<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve flown jet aircraft on the fuel. We&#8217;ve driven boats on the fuel. Cars, you name it. So scientifically, it&#8217;s a done deal. What the issue is now is economics,&#8221; renowned algae research Stephen Mayfield says in the article.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, but then survival of an industry\u00a0is a question of economics too, isn&#8217;t it? Especially, when you have other competitors such as fracked natural gas surfacing to the earth at rather low costs.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2014\/jun\/25\/fuel-alone-wont-float-san-diegos-algae-industry\/\">entire article from here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any surprises here? You could be in San Diego, or you could be in Mars for all algae cares, but you won&#8217;t be able to\u00a0survive on trying to make fuel from algae. Not yet, mates, not yet. Here&#8217;s an interesting article that details the travails of the algae fuel industry &#8220;We&#8217;ve flown jet aircraft on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,56,5,14,64,42,613,53,591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-energy","category-algae-energy-companies","category-algae-energy-cost","category-algae-oil-companies","category-biofuel","category-insights-and-perspectives","category-oil-demand","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5040,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions\/5040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}