{"id":7105,"date":"2017-12-06T06:19:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T06:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7105"},"modified":"2017-12-06T06:19:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T06:19:21","slug":"malaysian-algae-project-wins-newton-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/malaysian-algae-project-wins-newton-prize.html","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian algae project wins Newton Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project, spearheaded by lead researchers from Malaysia and Britain, successfully developed an integrated microbial fuel cell prototype using tropical algae from wastewater.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7106 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/microbial-fuel-cell-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/microbial-fuel-cell-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/microbial-fuel-cell-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">The concept\u2019s benefits are three-pronged \u2013 producing enough electricity to power a small electronic device, lowering carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and treating wastewater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">The electricity generation can be upscaled and should see a rural house being powered in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/2122126\/malaysian-algae-project-wins-newton-prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project, spearheaded by lead researchers from Malaysia and Britain, successfully developed an integrated microbial fuel cell prototype using tropical algae from wastewater. The concept\u2019s benefits are three-pronged \u2013 producing enough electricity to power a small electronic device, lowering carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and treating wastewater. The electricity generation can be upscaled and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[553,80,26,615,576],"tags":[136,423,873],"class_list":["post-7105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-products-and-applications","category-algae-wastewater-treatment","category-energy-electric-power","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae-research","tag-algae-based-waste-water-treatment","tag-microbial-fuel-cell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105","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=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7107,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions\/7107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}