{"id":538,"date":"2008-03-21T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2008-03-21T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T11:27:00","slug":"solazyme-idea-of-growing-algae-in-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/solazyme-idea-of-growing-algae-in-dark.html","title":{"rendered":"Solazyme&#8217;s Idea of Growing Algae in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>. See the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/dir\/dir.html\">complete list of Oilgae Blog articles<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>High capital costs are the biggest problem with bioreactors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Solazyme is pursuing a third path, one I find especially fascinating: growing algae in the dark in large tanks and feeding them sugar to supercharge their growth. &#8220;It&#8217;s a thousand times more productive than the natural process,&#8221; said Harrison Dillon, a geneticist and patent lawyer who serves as the company&#8217;s president and chief technology officer.<\/p>\n<p>Solazyme says it has already made thousands of gallons of high-grade biodiesel and even light sweet &#8220;biocrude&#8221; with its processes, which can use anything from chemical waste to wood chips as a source of carbon.<\/p>\n<p>Full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/raiders\/ci_8479963\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color:red;\">Nature <span style=\"color:blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/oil\/or\/or.html\">gave us<\/a><\/span> oil from algae; perhaps <span style=\"color:blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/story\/story.html\">we should try<\/a><\/span> Nature&#8217;s way again<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. High capital costs are the biggest problem with bioreactors&#8230; Solazyme is pursuing a third path, one I find especially fascinating: growing algae in the dark in large tanks and feeding them sugar to supercharge their growth. &#8220;It&#8217;s a thousand times more productive [&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-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}