{"id":6801,"date":"2017-10-19T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2017-10-19T12:20:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:20:25","slug":"the-pond-scum-that-could-fuel-jet-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-pond-scum-that-could-fuel-jet-planes.html","title":{"rendered":"The pond scum that could fuel jet planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from University of Tokyo are researching to use euglena,\u00a0a type of microalgae found in fresh and salty water for food, fuel and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6802 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/euglena-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/euglena-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/euglena-45x45.jpg 45w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/euglena.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Euglena, during photosynthesis, produce certain oils or lipids that can be used as nutritional supplements and also as a potent biofuel. The oil from euglena is chemically similar to kerosene but is lighter than other algae-derived oil and thus more suited for production of jet fuels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/the-pond-scum-that-could-fuel-jet-planes\/article19862035.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from University of Tokyo are researching to use euglena,\u00a0a type of microalgae found in fresh and salty water for food, fuel and pharmaceuticals. Euglena, during photosynthesis, produce certain oils or lipids that can be used as nutritional supplements and also as a potent biofuel. The oil from euglena is chemically similar to kerosene but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565,40,9,615,576],"tags":[136,640,94],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-oils","category-algae-fuel","category-algae-fuel-research","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae-research","tag-algae-fuel","tag-jet-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801","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=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6803,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/6803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}