{"id":583,"date":"2008-09-14T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2008-09-14T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T06:32:00","slug":"solazyme-jet-fuel-from-algae-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/solazyme-jet-fuel-from-algae-passes.html","title":{"rendered":"Solazyme Jet fuel from algae passes first flight test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>No, not flight, not yet. But Solazyme\u2014the mavericks who make their algal oil in the dark\u2014have produced a jet fuel that passes the ASTM&#8217;s standards for &#8220;aviation turbine fuel,&#8221; otherwise known as jet fuel. This makes it the first such bio-kerosene from algae, being earnestly sought by the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) and Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (better known as DARPA) as well as the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to not freezing at high altitude as biofuels are prone to do, the testing by the Southwest Research Institute shows that it has the same flashpoint, viscosity and stability as regular Jet A. Most importantly, it has the same density\u2014a key characteristic that other alternative fuels, such as those derived from natural gas or coal, lack.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/blog\/60-second-science\/post.cfm?id=jet-fuel-from-algae-passes-first-te-2008-09-09\">here @ Scientific American<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. No, not flight, not yet. But Solazyme\u2014the mavericks who make their algal oil in the dark\u2014have produced a jet fuel that passes the ASTM&#8217;s standards for &#8220;aviation turbine fuel,&#8221; otherwise known as jet fuel. This makes it the first such bio-kerosene from algae, being earnestly sought by the Commercial Aviation [&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-583","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\/583","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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}