{"id":618,"date":"2008-09-24T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2008-09-24T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T18:29:00","slug":"companies-trying-to-bring-down-cost-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/companies-trying-to-bring-down-cost-of.html","title":{"rendered":"Companies Trying to Bring Down Cost of Producing Oil from Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some excerpts on what companies are doing to reduce the cost of making oil and fuel from algae. This is from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=powering-automotive-future-with-pond-scum\">recent article at Scientific American<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Costs for algae-based fuel currently range from $10 to $100 per gallon, according to systems engineer Ron Pate at Sandia National Laboratories. &#8220;The idea [is] bringing algal oil down to $1 or $2 per gallon at a scale of 50 million gallons [190 million liters] per year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>High cost is a problem throughout the algal biofuels industry. &#8220;It&#8217;s energy cost to pump the water,&#8221; says Craig Harting, chief operating officer for Vancouver-based Global Green Solutions, which is building 100 bioreactors (large plastic devices used to grow algae) at a pilot plant in El Paso, Tex. &#8220;It&#8217;s capital cost to build bioreactors. It&#8217;s the harvesting and extraction process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a result, most companies say they have yet to determine the consumer price tag for algae-derived oil\u2014or to produce much of the stuff\u2014though Wolfson says Solazyme&#8217;s goal is $40 to $80 a barrel\u2014competitive with fossil oil.<\/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>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. Here are some excerpts on what companies are doing to reduce the cost of making oil and fuel from algae. This is from a recent article at Scientific American Costs for algae-based fuel currently range from $10 to $100 per gallon, according to systems engineer Ron Pate at Sandia National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-cultivation","category-algae-energy-cost","category-algae-photobioreactor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}