{"id":857,"date":"2009-01-12T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2009-01-12T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T04:19:00","slug":"center-to-research-algae-based-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/center-to-research-algae-based-fuels.html","title":{"rendered":"Center to Research Algae-Based Fuels &#8211; Stephen Mayfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbj.com\/images\/articles\/2009-01-12-biofuel%20-%20Stephen%20Mayfield%202.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 164px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sdbj.com\/images\/articles\/2009-01-12-biofuel%20-%20Stephen%20Mayfield%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A consortium of academic researchers is pushing to make San Diego a hub for research on algae-based fuels, a task that, if successful, could pour more jobs and funding into the area. <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stephen Mayfield, a biologist and associate dean at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, is spearheading an effort to elevate the region\u2019s position as a leader in algae-based fuels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is lobbying government officials to build a multimillion-dollar facility that would combine academic research teams from Scripps\u2019 research institute, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UC San Diego. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUltimately, I think, we\u2019d like to have a building maybe on the campus of UCSD,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His timing could prove spot on. San Diego, home to a handful of companies trying to create high-octane fuel from algae, could position itself as a major center for algal research under a new presidential administration that campaigned on renewable fuels and energy independence. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbj.com\/industry_article.asp?aID=77702637.2033502.1729247.7900158.5597432.888&amp;aID2=133010\">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. A consortium of academic researchers is pushing to make San Diego a hub for research on algae-based fuels, a task that, if successful, could pour more jobs and funding into the area. Stephen Mayfield, a biologist and associate dean at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, is spearheading an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-fuel-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}