{"id":6356,"date":"2017-03-30T12:08:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T12:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6356"},"modified":"2017-03-30T12:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T12:08:04","slug":"magic-team-reveals-algaes-hidden-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/magic-team-reveals-algaes-hidden-powers.html","title":{"rendered":"MAGIC Team Reveals Algae\u2019s Hidden Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marine AlGae Industrialization Consortium (MAGIC) team is finding out possible ways to convert lipids from marine algae into high density hydrocarbon biofuels for use in aviation and cargo shipping industries on a commercially viable scale. The left over algal biomass can be used to produce nutritious animal feed.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5239 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/algaloil-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/algaloil-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/algaloil-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the team, growing enough algae to meet the current liquid fuel demand would require an area of about 800,000 square miles. The team has already estimated that a commercial microalgae production facility of about 2500 acres would cost between $400 million and $500 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastalreview.org\/2017\/03\/magic-team-reveals-algaes-hidden-powers\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine AlGae Industrialization Consortium (MAGIC) team is finding out possible ways to convert lipids from marine algae into high density hydrocarbon biofuels for use in aviation and cargo shipping industries on a commercially viable scale. The left over algal biomass can be used to produce nutritious animal feed. According to the team, growing enough algae [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,40],"tags":[640],"class_list":["post-6356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-aviation-fuel","category-algae-fuel","tag-algae-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356","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=6356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6357,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions\/6357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}