{"id":703,"date":"2008-11-07T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2008-11-07T05:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T05:32:00","slug":"venture-capital-ambition-research-spur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/venture-capital-ambition-research-spur.html","title":{"rendered":"Venture Capital, Ambition &amp; Research Spur Race for Algae as Fuel Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>About $180 million in venture capital money has been raised for algae research this year. Some academic institutes have set up dedicated algae research centers; some start-ups are planning to test algae on larger demonstration projects in coming months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m convinced algae will work, but it&#8217;ll take a different, out-of-the-box approach,&#8221; said Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla, delivering the keynote address at the Algae Biomass Summit in Seattle last month.<\/p>\n<p>The US federal government is starting to throw money into it. The Department of Energy has invested $2.3 million in algae-to-fuel grants so far this year. And the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a new program to study algal feedstock material.<\/p>\n<p>Startups and researchers are developing ways to maximize growth and reduce costs \u2014 growing it in the dark, increasing the amount of sunlight reaching the organisms, experimenting with oil-rich strains&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/news\/ap\/20081103\/ap_on_hi_te\/tec_algae_energy_1\">here<\/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. About $180 million in venture capital money has been raised for algae research this year. Some academic institutes have set up dedicated algae research centers; some start-ups are planning to test algae on larger demonstration projects in coming months. &#8220;I&#8217;m convinced algae will work, but it&#8217;ll take a different, out-of-the-box [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-investments","category-algae-fuel-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","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=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}