{"id":791,"date":"2008-12-17T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=791"},"modified":"2008-12-17T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:32:00","slug":"algae-based-technologies-for-greenhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/algae-based-technologies-for-greenhouse.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae-based technologies for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductionh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"p\">               Algae-based technologies could provide a key tool for reducing        greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants and other carbon        intensive industrial processes.            <\/div>\n<div class=\"p\">               Driven by escalating global climate change concerns and the rising cost        of petroleum based energy, companies are now starting to examine using        certain forms of algae to reduce carbon emissions from power plants,        generate renewable transportation fuels, and produce feed for fish and        livestock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p\">               Using an intricate photosynthetic process, trendsetters have developed        biodiesel and ethanol from an unlikely source &#8211; algae &#8211; that, given        optimal conditions, can double its volume overnight. Up to 50 percent of        an alga&#8217;s body weight is comprised of oil, whereas oil-palm        trees&#8211;currently the largest producer of oil to make biofuels&#8211;yield just        about 20 percent of their weight in oil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/Research-Markets-Developing-Biofuel-Algae\/story.aspx?guid=%7B11C3DEAB-1E67-4379-8D92-C4DEE44DE381%7D\">See more<br \/><\/a><\/div>\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. Algae-based technologies could provide a key tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants and other carbon intensive industrial processes. Driven by escalating global climate change concerns and the rising cost of petroleum based energy, companies are now starting to examine using certain forms of algae to reduce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-co2-capture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}