{"id":659,"date":"2008-10-27T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2008-10-27T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T22:53:00","slug":"investments-skyrocketing-for-algae-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/investments-skyrocketing-for-algae-oil.html","title":{"rendered":"Investments Skyrocketing for Algae Oil Companies and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>There are many companies that are joining the race to find a cost-effective, environmentally friendly way to turn algae into the fuel needed to power cars, trucks, airplanes and boats.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of money being invested in algae-to-fuel research by venture capitalists is skyrocketing. New businesses are snapping up graduate students knowledgeable about the aquatic plants before they&#8217;ve even finished their degrees, and they&#8217;re hustling to form alliances with algae academics who for years toiled without much notice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Industry is coming to us,&#8221; said Shulin Chen, a Washington State University biological engineering professor working on algae power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an exciting time,&#8221; said Rose Ann Cattolico, a University of Washington algae expert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of the innovation is happening on the West Coast (of the US),&#8221; said Darrin Morgan, The Boeing Co.&#8217;s director of business analysis\/environmental strategy.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/10\/investment_in_algae_for_fuel_r.html\">this news item<\/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>; 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. There are many companies that are joining the race to find a cost-effective, environmentally friendly way to turn algae into the fuel needed to power cars, trucks, airplanes and boats. The amount of money being invested in algae-to-fuel research by venture capitalists is skyrocketing. New businesses are snapping up graduate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-companies","category-algae-energy-investments","category-algae-fuel-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}