{"id":891,"date":"2009-01-27T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=891"},"modified":"2009-01-27T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T04:15:00","slug":"sammy-boussiba-of-ben-gurion-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/sammy-boussiba-of-ben-gurion-university.html","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Boussiba of Ben-Gurion University says Algae is Tough Business"},"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;\">     An expert in algae research and genetic engineering who heads the BGU\u2019s Landau Family Microalgal Biotechnology Laboratory, disclosed that large-scale algae production is not without its challenges:<\/p>\n<p>    Some of the major problems associated with are biological\u2014including oxygen control and strain stability. Algae adapt to conditions, and producers need to make sure that the algae remain the same strain as when they started. Culture contaminants can be serious problems and a parasite infestation can close production.<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cThe message I want to convey to you is that this is a tough business, and if you don\u2019t know what you are doing, you\u2019ll be out in a few years\u2026If you are working with little reactors, you are playing games, you are not in the real world. When you go to reality, it is much more complicated,\u201d Boussiba said at the conference.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/geekheeb\/item\/biofuel_would_be_green_but_slimy_20090126\/\">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. An expert in algae research and genetic engineering who heads the BGU\u2019s Landau Family Microalgal Biotechnology Laboratory, disclosed that large-scale algae production is not without its challenges: Some of the major problems associated with are biological\u2014including oxygen control and strain stability. Algae adapt to conditions, and producers need to make [&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-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}