{"id":16719,"date":"2013-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130626-03n"},"modified":"2013-06-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T22:00:00","slug":"a-slimy-marine-organism-fit-for-biofuel-and-salmon-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/a-slimy-marine-organism-fit-for-biofuel-and-salmon-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Slimy Marine Organism Fit for Biofuel and Salmon Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>It sounds too good to be true: a common marine species that consumes microorganisms and can be converted into much-needed feed for salmon or a combustible biofuel for filling petrol tanks. And it can be cultivated in vast amounts: 200 kg per square metre of ocean surface area.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tunicates (<i>ciona intestinalis<\/i>) is the name of this unexpected source of such rich potential. The species is the starting point for a research-based innovation project being carried out by researchers and innovation specialists in Bergen. The idea was hatched by a group of researchers at the University of Bergen and Uni Research.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2013\/06\/130625073813.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29\" >www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2013\/06\/130625073813.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: cellulose, omega-3, bioethanol, oceans, cultivation, sugars, biomass, protein <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>It sounds too good to be true: a common marine species that consumes microorganisms and can be converted into much-needed feed for salmon or a<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[5164,10953,4729,4728],"class_list":["post-16719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-bergen-teknologioverfring","supplier-the-research-council-of-norway","supplier-uni-research-bergen","supplier-university-of-bergen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16719"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}