{"id":1511,"date":"2010-03-29T04:16:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T04:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2010-03-29T04:16:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T04:16:41","slug":"heralded-biotown-project-a-shadow-of-its-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/heralded-biotown-project-a-shadow-of-its-goal.html","title":{"rendered":"Heralded BioTown Project a Shadow of Its Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny town of Reynolds had big plans when Gov. Mitch Daniels touted  it in 2005 as the location of BioTown USA, the state&#8217;s first project to  make a community produce enough energy to become self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>But progress has been slow in the five years since in the town about 25  miles north of Lafayette. A $2.7 million greenhouse featuring rotating  wheels covered with algae serves as the wastewater treatment facility  and is the most visible sign of progress toward the BioTown goal. But  the excitement that surrounded Daniels&#8217; 2005 launch of the effort has  died down as several other proposed projects dried up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wibc.com\/news\/Story.aspx?ID=1211929\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny town of Reynolds had big plans when Gov. Mitch Daniels touted it in 2005 as the location of BioTown USA, the state&#8217;s first project to make a community produce enough energy to become self-sufficient. But progress has been slow in the five years since in the town about 25 miles north of Lafayette. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-companies","category-algae-energy-investments","category-algae-wastewater-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}