{"id":7389,"date":"2018-06-04T12:56:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2018-06-04T12:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:56:46","slug":"future-cities-could-be-lit-by-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/future-cities-could-be-lit-by-algae.html","title":{"rendered":"Future cities could be lit by algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US researchers have been\u00a0investigating bioluminescent algae\u00a0for some years, but they have never successfully mapped the whole bioluminescent system within the algae. At the Technical University of Denmark (DTU),\u00a0they are conducting the first Danish research in this area, and it shows that bioluminescent organisms could one day light up\u00a0the cities in a turquoise blue light.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7390 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bioluminescent-algae-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bioluminescent-algae-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bioluminescent-algae-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are however, some clear challenges to solve before this becomes a reality.\u00a0The genes may need to be transferred\u00a0from bioluminescent organisms into other green organisms, perhaps higher plants that will be able to emit light more effectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencenordic.com\/future-cities-could-be-lit-algae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US researchers have been\u00a0investigating bioluminescent algae\u00a0for some years, but they have never successfully mapped the whole bioluminescent system within the algae. At the Technical University of Denmark (DTU),\u00a0they are conducting the first Danish research in this area, and it shows that bioluminescent organisms could one day light up\u00a0the cities in a turquoise blue light. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[618,615,576],"tags":[647,136],"class_list":["post-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovations","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae","tag-algae-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389","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=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions\/7391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}