{"id":5419,"date":"2015-04-08T11:55:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T11:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2015-04-08T11:55:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T11:55:52","slug":"turning-algal-blooms-into-biofuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/turning-algal-blooms-into-biofuel.html","title":{"rendered":"Turning Algal Blooms into Biofuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Western Michigan University are conducting an experiment to use harmful algal blooms as a <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5420 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/algal-blooms-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Algal blooms\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/algal-blooms-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/algal-blooms-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>feedstock for biofuels and also the leftover feedstocks as farm soil nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the team is exploring different growth substrates suitable for algal growth in water bodies. By using 3-D printing technologies, scientists are engineering different substrates suitable for growth of algal blooms. The testing is being done only on a lab scale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/technology\/1113359714\/turning-algal-blooms-into-biofuel-032615\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Western Michigan University are conducting an experiment to use harmful algal blooms as a feedstock for biofuels and also the leftover feedstocks as farm soil nutrients. Currently, the team is exploring different growth substrates suitable for algal growth in water bodies. By using 3-D printing technologies, scientists are engineering different substrates suitable for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9,42,615,576],"tags":[199,136],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-fuel","category-algae-fuel-research","category-biofuel","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae-fuel-research-2","tag-algae-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}