{"id":5584,"date":"2015-08-18T13:05:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2015-08-18T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:05:23","slug":"turning-co2-emissions-into-plastic-with-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/turning-co2-emissions-into-plastic-with-algae.html","title":{"rendered":"Turning CO2 Emissions into Plastic with Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NREL researchers are conducting an experiment to produce ethylene directly from genetically modified algae. \u00a0The experiment was conducted by introducing a gene that coded for ethylene producing enzyme. This allows t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5585 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/NREL-150x150.gif\" alt=\"NREL\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/NREL-150x150.gif 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/NREL-45x45.gif 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>he organisms to convert carbon dioxide into ethylene. As ethylene is a gas, it can be easily collected. \u00a0The CO<sub>2<\/sub> used for this conversion can be taken from power plants.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing research shows that the alternative method, if becomes efficient enough could potentially replace traditional method of converting petrochemicals to ethylene and other compounds.\u00a0 As algae have the ability to absorb three times the CO<sub>2<\/sub> to produce one ton of ethylene, typically this process acts as a carbon sink.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060023524\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NREL researchers are conducting an experiment to produce ethylene directly from genetically modified algae. \u00a0The experiment was conducted by introducing a gene that coded for ethylene producing enzyme. This allows the organisms to convert carbon dioxide into ethylene. As ethylene is a gas, it can be easily collected. \u00a0The CO2 used for this conversion can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557,82,10,615],"tags":[136,99],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-plastics","category-algae-carbon-capture","category-algae-co2-capture","category-research-2","tag-algae-research","tag-co2-capture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","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=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5586,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}