{"id":820,"date":"2009-01-03T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2009-01-03T03:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T03:34:00","slug":"san-diego-best-for-building-on-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/san-diego-best-for-building-on-algae.html","title":{"rendered":"San Diego- Best for Building on Algae Biofuel Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego,  home to dozens of companies involved in solar or wind energy, would be a major player in energy economy if researchers succeed in turning algae into a commercially viable transportation fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the scientific challenge of our generation,&#8221; said Stephen Mayfield, a cell biologist and associate dean at the Scripps Research Institute, referring to the need to cure America of its 200-billion-gallon-a-year oil addiction. &#8220;And algae is the answer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And a top-notch research infrastructure, a thriving biotech sector and proximity to cheap land in Imperial County, where the plant could be grown on a large scale with plenty of sun, combine to give San Diego a strong foundation for building on algae&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/articles\/2009\/01\/02\/science\/975algae010109.txt\">See more<\/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. San Diego, home to dozens of companies involved in solar or wind energy, would be a major player in energy economy if researchers succeed in turning algae into a commercially viable transportation fuel. &#8220;It is the scientific challenge of our generation,&#8221; said Stephen Mayfield, a cell biologist and associate dean [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-investments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}