{"id":562,"date":"2008-06-18T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2008-06-18T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T18:19:00","slug":"solazyme-claims-algae-biodiesel-meets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/solazyme-claims-algae-biodiesel-meets.html","title":{"rendered":"Solazyme Claims Algae Biodiesel Meets Fuel Standards"},"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>Closely held Solazyme Inc. is set to announce shortly that its algae-derived biodiesel meets the American Society for Testing and Materials specification for diesel fuel. This means it can go into existing diesel engines without modifications.<\/p>\n<p>Solazyme says it is the first diesel derived from algae to meet these standards. Before you go out and sell the farm to invest, a couple caveats:<\/p>\n<p>1) ASTM doesn\u2019t police or put their stamp of approval on these claims; it\u2019s up to Solazyme\u2019s competitors to knock it down if untrue;<\/p>\n<p>2) numerous companies are producing oil from algae, but none are doing so economically and at a meaningful scale \u2013 yet.<\/p>\n<p>Full report from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2008\/06\/10\/green-grow-solazyme-claims-algae-biodiesel-meets-fuel-standards\/\">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. Closely held Solazyme Inc. is set to announce shortly that its algae-derived biodiesel meets the American Society for Testing and Materials specification for diesel fuel. This means it can go into existing diesel engines without modifications. Solazyme says it is the first [&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-562","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\/562","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=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}