{"id":864,"date":"2009-01-14T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2009-01-14T04:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T04:03:00","slug":"greenfuel-cuts-staff-outsources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/greenfuel-cuts-staff-outsources.html","title":{"rendered":"GreenFuel Cuts Staff, Outsources Aurantia Cement Factory Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Algae biofuel outfit GreenFuel Technologies has laid off 19 people, or about half of its staff, another sign of the difficulty that fledgling alternative fuels face.<\/p>\n<p>A company representative confirmed the staff reduction on Monday and said one of GreenFuel&#8217;s two major customers&#8211;the Aurantia cement factory in Spain&#8211;remains a customer.<\/p>\n<p>GreenFuel has developed a method for growing and harvesting algae in a greenhouse. <br \/>Company CEO Simon Upfill-Brown, who was recruited last year from Dow Chemical to head the 8-year-old firm, told Xconomy that the engineering for its Spanish deal, previously estimated at $92 million, will be outsourced. <\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-11128_3-10141468-54.html\">here<\/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. Algae biofuel outfit GreenFuel Technologies has laid off 19 people, or about half of its staff, another sign of the difficulty that fledgling alternative fuels face. A company representative confirmed the staff reduction on Monday and said one of GreenFuel&#8217;s two major customers&#8211;the Aurantia cement factory in Spain&#8211;remains a customer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-co2-capture","category-algae-cultivation-power-plants","category-algae-energy-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}