{"id":545,"date":"2008-05-01T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2008-05-01T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:04:00","slug":"aquaflow-bionomic-looking-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/aquaflow-bionomic-looking-at.html","title":{"rendered":"Aquaflow Bionomic Looking at Distributed Algal Biofuel Production?"},"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>New Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic may be getting close to achieving its goal of becoming the world\u2019s first company to viably produce large amounts of biofuel from wild algae.<\/p>\n<p>Barrie Leay, Aquaflow\u2019s chairman, said his company had successfully achieved \u201ccommercial-scale continuous harvesting of tons of wild algae\u201d in a recent interview with Ethanol Producer Magazine. He outlined what he believed will become the new energy model -\u2013 \u201cdistributed\u201d production \u2013- which would do away with the inefficiencies he believes are inherent in the central plant model used by both the oil industry and ethanol producers.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, this means Aquaflow would seek to spread its algae-to-biofuel production process over many harvest areas &#8211; typically 1,000 acre oxidation ponds located around the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2008\/04\/11\/aquaflow-successfully-harvests-wild-algae\/\">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. New Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic may be getting close to achieving its goal of becoming the world\u2019s first company to viably produce large amounts of biofuel from wild algae. Barrie Leay, Aquaflow\u2019s chairman, said his company had successfully achieved \u201ccommercial-scale continuous harvesting of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}