{"id":6792,"date":"2017-10-19T10:56:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T10:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2017-10-19T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T10:56:54","slug":"une-lands-1-3m-grant-to-develop-new-technologies-for-seaweed-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/une-lands-1-3m-grant-to-develop-new-technologies-for-seaweed-production.html","title":{"rendered":"UNE lands $1.3M grant to develop new technologies for seaweed production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Department of Energy awarded the University of New England a three-year, nationally competitive research grant for $1.32 million to develop technologies that will enable the United States to become a leading producer of seaweed.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6793 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/une-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/une-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/une-logo-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UNE&#8217;s award is part of a new program called Mariner, which stands for &#8220;Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources.&#8221; Besides fostering innovation in seaweed production, the program seeks to improve U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness by using macroalgae as a feedstock for domestic transportation fuels, chemicals, foods and other commercial products without competing with food crops for land and water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainebiz.biz\/article\/20171016\/NEWS01\/171019965\/une-lands-$13m-grant-to-develop-new-technologies-for-seaweed-production\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Department of Energy awarded the University of New England a three-year, nationally competitive research grant for $1.32 million to develop technologies that will enable the United States to become a leading producer of seaweed. UNE&#8217;s award is part of a new program called Mariner, which stands for &#8220;Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,615,59,576],"tags":[279,136,568],"class_list":["post-6792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-cultivation","category-research-2","category-seaweed","category-university-research","tag-algae-cultivation-2","tag-algae-research","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792","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=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6794,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions\/6794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}