{"id":927,"date":"2009-02-14T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2009-02-14T04:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T04:44:00","slug":"regional-algae-initiative-rick-halperin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/regional-algae-initiative-rick-halperin.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;The Regional Algae Initiative&quot; Rick Halperin, The Project Manager"},"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;\">&#8220;The initiative includes San Diego\u2019s growing mini-cluster of algae-based biofuels startups&#8221; Halperin says &#8220;the effort also plans to rely on a recent macro-economic study on \u201cmega-region\u201d economic development that identifies ways in which groups in San Diego and Imperial Counties can collaborate&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Imperial County, which borders Mexico between San Diego County and Arizona, consists of 4,597 square miles and is increasingly being viewed as a paradise for renewable energy, as an ideal hotbed for growing algae in all its multipurpose forms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea for a regional algae initiative is relatively virtual,\u201d Halperin told . The initiative is intended to encourage collaboration, for example, by developing and sharing information on sources of government grants and other public funding for algae-based projects that span the continuum from laboratory to construction of large-scale plants. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to be very cross-disciplinary in our approach to all this,\u201d Halperin says. \u201cThe regional algae initiative is part cheerleading and part figuring out what needs to get done and what needs to get cleared out of our path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apart from using algae to produce biofuels, Halperin says the potential uses for algae are legion. New technologies are being developed in San Diego that use algae to produce methane gas for electric power plants\u2014and as algal pond filters capable of absorbing carbon dioxide emissions from the same power plants. New technologies that use algae to process and cleanse sewage wastewater also could prove helpful to the City of San Diego, which is currently operating its wastewater treatment plant under an EPA waiver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more you can combine your industry initiatives with solutions that address some other problems, the better your chance of getting funding,\u201d Halperin says.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/san-diego\/2009\/02\/12\/virtual-initiative-cultivating-algae-industry-bloom-in-san-diego\/\">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. &#8220;The initiative includes San Diego\u2019s growing mini-cluster of algae-based biofuels startups&#8221; Halperin says &#8220;the effort also plans to rely on a recent macro-economic study on \u201cmega-region\u201d economic development that identifies ways in which groups in San Diego and Imperial Counties can collaborate&#8221; Imperial County, which borders Mexico between San Diego [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}