{"id":509,"date":"2007-11-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2007-11-23T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T15:00:00","slug":"asu-researchers-trying-to-get-jet-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/asu-researchers-trying-to-get-jet-fuel.html","title":{"rendered":"ASU Researchers trying to get jet fuel from algae"},"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><strong>ASU Researchers trying to get jet fuel from algae<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David van den Berg, The Arizona Republic, Aug. 6, 2007<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at Arizona State University&#8217;s Polytechnic Campus in Mesa is involved in a project to turn oil produced from algae into military jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Qiang Hu and Milton Sommerfeld, directors of the school&#8217;s Laboratory for Algae Research and Biotechnology, will search for oil-rich strains of algae, evaluate their potential as oil producers and develop a production system that will yield competitively priced oil. UOP, LLC, a Honeywell company, is leading the project, which the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is backing with a $6.7 million grant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe, at a minimum, that 100 barrels of oil per year per acre of algae is achievable,&#8221; Sommerfeld said.<\/p>\n<p>Full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/community\/gilbert\/articles\/0806gr-altfuels0806-ON.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color:red;\">Nature <span style=\"color:blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/oil\/or\/or.html\">gave us<\/a><\/span> oil from algae; perhaps <span style=\"color:blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/story\/story.html\">we should try<\/a><\/span> Nature&#8217;s way again<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. ASU Researchers trying to get jet fuel from algae David van den Berg, The Arizona Republic, Aug. 6, 2007 A team of researchers at Arizona State University&#8217;s Polytechnic Campus in Mesa is involved in a project to turn oil produced from algae [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-aviation-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}