{"id":7072,"date":"2017-11-22T11:23:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2017-11-22T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:23:37","slug":"seaweed-could-fuel-10-of-us-transportation-needs-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/seaweed-could-fuel-10-of-us-transportation-needs-say-scientists.html","title":{"rendered":"Seaweed could fuel 10% of US transportation needs, say scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case for seaweed as a viable material for biofuel has been strengthened after an ocean research, exploration, and education organisation received $5.7m of funding from a sector of the U.S. Department of Energy.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5944 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/brown-bladderwrack-seaweed-Droits-d-auteur-jopelka_reference-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/brown-bladderwrack-seaweed-Droits-d-auteur-jopelka_reference-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/brown-bladderwrack-seaweed-Droits-d-auteur-jopelka_reference-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution\u00a0(WHOI) was granted the money by the\u00a0Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy\u00a0(ARPA-E) to for two projects that develop tools and technology to advance the mass production of seaweed for biofuels and bio-based chemicals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biobasedworldnews.com\/seaweed-could-fuel-10-of-us-transportation-needs-say-scientists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case for seaweed as a viable material for biofuel has been strengthened after an ocean research, exploration, and education organisation received $5.7m of funding from a sector of the U.S. Department of Energy. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution\u00a0(WHOI) was granted the money by the\u00a0Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy\u00a0(ARPA-E) to for two projects that develop tools and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,59],"tags":[640,568],"class_list":["post-7072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-fuel","category-seaweed","tag-algae-fuel","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072","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=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7073,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions\/7073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}