{"id":913,"date":"2009-02-06T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=913"},"modified":"2009-02-06T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T05:24:00","slug":"cellular-optics-for-open-pond-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/cellular-optics-for-open-pond-algae.html","title":{"rendered":"Cellular Optics for Open Pond Algae Cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researcher Tasios Melis argues that a larger chlorophyll antenna helps the organism compete for sunlight absorption and survive in the wild, where sunlight is often limited but is detrimental to the engineering-driven effort of using algae to convert sunlight into biofuel.<\/p>\n<p>Besides getting the algae to convert more sunlight to fuel, another issue that needs to be addressed is how to configure bio-culture tanks in such a way that sunlight can penetrate the outer layer of algae so that lower-down layers can also participate in the photo-conversion. Melis calls the overall effort to maximize the efficiency of the solar-to-product conversion process with microalgae, \u201ccellular optics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tasios Melis Said \u201cFurther improvement in the performance of photosynthesis under mass culture conditions, and in the yield of \u2018biofuels\u2019 by the microalgae are needed before cost parity with traditional fuels can be achieved.\u201d<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/pnu\/2009\/split\/880-1.html\">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. Researcher Tasios Melis argues that a larger chlorophyll antenna helps the organism compete for sunlight absorption and survive in the wild, where sunlight is often limited but is detrimental to the engineering-driven effort of using algae to convert sunlight into biofuel. Besides getting the algae to convert more sunlight to [&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-913","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\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}