{"id":555,"date":"2008-05-05T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2008-05-05T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T15:35:00","slug":"bionavitas-from-seattle-looks-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/bionavitas-from-seattle-looks-at.html","title":{"rendered":"Bionavitas from Seattle Looks at Alternative Markets for 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>Seattle-area start-up Bionavitas is one of several companies moving into the algae business. Because it doesn&#8217;t compete with food and has a high energy density, algae has a lot of potential as a source of biodiesel.<\/p>\n<p>But it will take years before algae biodiesel will make a dent in the petroleum diesel market, said Bionavitas CEO and co-founder Michael Weaver.<\/p>\n<p>So in the short term, the company is growing algae for alternative markets: oils for pharmaceuticals and waste water treatment.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-11128_3-9934274-54.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#990000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/report\/report.html\">Oilgae Comprehensive Report<\/a> provides extensive details on profiles and info on over a hundred companies and commercial efforts in this domain.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Seattle-area start-up Bionavitas is one of several companies moving into the algae business. Because it doesn&#8217;t compete with food and has a high energy density, algae has a lot of potential as a source of biodiesel. But it will take years before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-energy-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}