{"id":33543,"date":"2017-01-17T22:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T06:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/energy-dept-seeks-a-few-good-really-really-good-seaweed-farmers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:52:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:52:04","slug":"energy-dept-seeks-a-few-good-really-really-good-seaweed-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/energy-dept-seeks-a-few-good-really-really-good-seaweed-farmers","title":{"rendered":"Energy Dept. Seeks A Few Good (Really, Really Good) Seaweed Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/energy-dept-seeks-a-few-good-really-really-good-seaweed-farmers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Attention all seaweed farmers! US DoE and DARPA wants you.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Did you know that the amount of commercially produced seaweed almost hit the mark of 25 million metric tons last year? China and Indonesia dominate the global seaweed-to-food market, and now the Department of Energy has been casting a hungry eye on the potential for the US to get in on the action, with a particular focus on converting seaweed to biofuel and other high value products.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is a problem. Growing seaweed \u2014 aka macroalgae \u2014 for food is one thing. The algae-to-energy cycle is quite another thing entirely. That\u2019s why the Energy Department has called upon its cutting edge funding division, ARPA-E, to put out a call for the super macroalgae farmer of the future.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/energy-dept-seeks-a-few-good-really-really-good-seaweed-farmers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/energy-dept-seeks-a-few-good-really-really-good-seaweed-farmers.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/energy-dept-seeks-a-few-good-really-really-good-seaweed-farmers.jpg 570w, https:\/\/c1cleantechnicacom-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/files\/2017\/01\/algae-energy-ocean-sea-biomass-270x153.png 270w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/energy-dept-seeks-a-few-good-really-really-good-seaweed-farmers.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px)  100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2017\/01\/17\/energy-dept-seeks-good-really-really-good-seaweed-farmers\/\">https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2017\/01\/17\/energy-dept-seeks-good-...d-farmers\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention all seaweed farmers! US DoE and DARPA wants you. Did you know that the amount of commercially produced seaweed almost hit the mark of 25 million metric tons last year? China and Indonesia dominate the global seaweed-to-food market, and now the Department of Energy has been casting a hungry eye on the potential for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65353,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33543\/revisions\/65353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}