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2010—The Year in Algae

(Algae Industry Magazine)   ...(W)e decided to go right to the experts and see what was on their minds over this past year. It’s pretty easy to do this in the Internet Age. Through analytics we are able to see how

December 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels from Algae Report Released by IHS

(AZOCleantech)   IHS, a pioneering leader providing critical data and insight, has published its first study comparing process designs and the financial side for the production of 30 million gallons per year of biodiesel from three different microalgal technological methods in

December 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Turbine Bio Fuel: the “Future of Modern Flight”

(Renewable Energy Magazine)  Compact Contractors for America (CCA) has developed a dry process biofuel from algae which the company hopes will power military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles such as Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk in the not too distant future. CCA’s founder

December 23, 2010 Read Full Article

College Students Work to Turn Algae into Fuel

by Kassia Micek (The Courier of Montgomery County) Instead of trying to get rid of that slimy, green substance that habitually grows in water, Lone Star College-Montgomery students are are growing large amounts of the organism in hopes of turning it

December 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Navy Drives Biofuel Production With Goal to Buy 336M Gallons a Year by 2020, Enhancing San Diego’s Role as Center for Algae Biofuels

by Bruce V. Bigelow (Xconomy.com)  The U.S. military’s interest in developing algae biofuels dates back at least three years, when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) began to assess the technical capabilities needed to produce JP-8 grade jet fuel. By

December 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Hydrotreated Renewable Jet Fuel Close to Certification but Scale-Up Challenges Remain

by Jeffrey Decker (FlightGlobal)    Commercial production of jet biofuels could find authorisation in December under fuel specification amendments being considered by certificating body ASTM International.Enormous investments and economies of scale are far behind testing that consistently confirms the safety and

December 22, 2010 Read Full Article

The Charge of the Capital Light Brigade

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...But a new generation of companies has come along with new ideas about how to develop scale in a world of empty wallets. You might have heard of them as Amyris, Solazyme, LS9, Gevo, Joule

December 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Military Signals Advanced Biofuels Demand: 336 Million Gallons per Year by 2020

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...This week in Honolulu, Chris Tindal of the US Navy joined advanced biofuels CEOs Jason Pyle of Sapphire Energy and Jonathan Wolfson of Solazyme at BIO’s Pacific Rim Summit, to discuss the scope and scale

December 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Seaweed as Biofuel? Metabolic Engineering Makes It a Viable Option

(PhysOrg.com)   Is red seaweed a viable future biofuel? Now that a University of Illinois metabolic engineer has developed a strain of yeast that can make short work of fermenting galactose, the answer is an unequivocal yes. ...(M)arine biomass can be easily

December 17, 2010 Read Full Article

A.I.M. Interview: Scripps' Dr. Greg Mitchell

(Algae Industry Magazine) Dr. B. Greg Mitchell is a research biologist and senior lecturer at the University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. ...For more than two decades Greg has promoted mass culture of algae to mitigate CO2 and

December 14, 2010 Read Full Article

NASA Research Park to Host World's Largest, Greenest Airship

(National Air and Space Administration) NASA has entered into a lease with E Green Technologies, Inc. (EGT) Kellyton, Ala., to bring the world’s largest airship to NASA Research Park at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Under the terms of

December 13, 2010 Read Full Article

New USDA Loan Guarantees, $50 Biofuels, Asia, Syngas among New Biofuels Trends, Gossip at Pacific Rim Summit

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Honolulu, much of the leadership of the advanced biofuels and renewables chemicals industries have gathered this week at BIO’s Pacific Rim Summit.  ...(W)hat are the key trends? Here are 11 that the Digest spotted. 1.

December 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Chilean Energy Companies Copec, E-CL Join For Biodiesel Venture

by Anthony Esposito  (Fox Business/Dow Jones)   Two of the most important players in Chile's fuel and energy market, fuel and forestry conglomerate Empresas Copec SA (COPEC.SN) and power generator E-CL SA (ECL.SN), will team up to create biofuels from micro-algae. ... The

December 12, 2010 Read Full Article

OriginOil Announces Successful First Phase of Commercial Pilot Program

(OriginOil)  Pilot Partner MBD Energy Praises OriginOil Team on Expertise and System Operation OriginOil, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced the successful completion

December 12, 2010 Read Full Article

The Goldilocks Challenge: Getting It ‘Just Right’ at Aurora Algae

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Oak Investment venture partner (and now Aurora chairman) Brian Hinman noted that “Aurora Biofuels has made a significant genetic engineering achievement in doubling the productivity of its proprietary algae, and this round of funding will

December 12, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae Highlights from Around the World

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Australia  Australian scientists are claiming the world’s best production rates of oil from algae grown in open saline ponds, following a joint $3.3 million project led by Murdoch University and involving the University of Adelaide. The claims are

December 08, 2010 Read Full Article

Chinese Academy Inks Deal with Republic of Korea University on Algae Biodiesel Research

(People's Daily)  A Chinese science academy in east China's Shandong Province has clinched a deal to introduce photobioreactor technology from Chosun University in the Republic of Korea (ROK) to aid the former's research on mass producing oil-rich algae for biodiesel

December 08, 2010 Read Full Article

Viral Genetics Launches VG Energy to Market Biofuel Technology

(BusinessWire)  Viral Genetics, Inc., (Pinksheets: VRAL.PK) has launched a subsidiary called “VG Energy, Inc.” The new entity is majority-owned by Viral Genetics and its current shareholders, and was formed to market the company’s biofuel technology. “The new brand will help open

December 08, 2010 Read Full Article

Commentary on Biofuels Digest's 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Shockers in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy   Our picks for most underrated company?   American Process at #97 and Fiberight at #85 got short shrift from the voters this year, and Targeted Growth has an outstanding story

December 07, 2010 Read Full Article

To 20 Green Tech Ideas: Algae Biofuel

by Bryan Walsh (Time/CNN)  ...One of the best options on the horizon is biofuel made from algae, which counters a lot of the problems with corn ethanol. (The right strains of algae secrete oils that can be used to make

December 07, 2010 Read Full Article

Bebout Patents Marlstone CO2 Process for Algae Growth

(Algae Industry Magazine)  A report from the Savannah (GA) News, states that after more than 4 years of research, Bebout and Associates has patented a process for growing algae for biofuels that promises faster growth rates, higher oil production and greater

December 06, 2010 Read Full Article

Algal Biomass Organization Publishes First Descriptive Language Guidelines for the Algae Industry

(Algal Biomass Organization)  Document intended to remove confusion, increase cohesion among experts evaluating algae technology The Algal Biomass Organization (ABO), the trade association for the algae industry, today released its “Algal Industry Minimum Descriptive Language” document — the first attempt at establishing

December 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Neste Oil Becomes Chief Monster as Renewable Diesel becomes Biofuels Monster

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)   ...In renewable diesel there are two companies that are getting it done, in terms of putting fuel on the street in meaningful volumes. Those are Dynamic Fuels and Neste Oil. Dynamic, which is a JV

December 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Drop-In Biofuel Opportunities Reported from Aussie Research Breakthrough

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Australia, World Wide Carbon Credits Limited announced today that it has successfully lodged final patent applications over a gene that encodes an enzyme capable of producing a class of hydrocarbons known as triterpenoids, including di-hydro

December 02, 2010 Read Full Article

OriginOil Selected to Help Build New Advanced Algae Center in New Mexico

(OriginOil)  Former DOE Aquatic Species Program Site Will Enable Commercial Scale Testing for Algae-to-oil Industry OriginOil, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced that

December 02, 2010 Read Full Article

NX Global, Inc. Signs Joint Venture for Eco Sustainable Sites

(MarketWire)  Applied Concepts for Energy, Inc. a subsidiary of NX Global, Inc., announced November 22, 2010, a joint venture to redevelop at least four former paper and pulp processing plants in the U.S. and Canada. Each one of these sites are Brownfield sites perfectly

December 01, 2010 Read Full Article

National Algae Association Reaches Out to Educators

(Algae Industry Magazine)  The National Algae Association is putting out a call to educators to network with other educators and algae researchers in the enhancement of algae curricula by attending their January 13 Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, and then the

December 01, 2010 Read Full Article

A.I.M. Interview: Eldorado Biofuels' Paul Laur

by David Schwartz  (Algae Industry Magazine)  ...Up until recently a low profile player in the algae arena, Eldorado Biofuels has developed a niche that may not have received much attention so far, but has the potential to make a strong

November 30, 2010 Read Full Article

New Mexico State University Funded to Study Algae-based Jet Fuel

(Algae Industry Magazine)  he U.S. military wants New Mexico State University to find improved ways to turn algae into a sustainable source for jet fuel. The research project is part of a $2.346 million grant funded by the Air Force where

November 26, 2010 Read Full Article

Big Isle Farm Promises Rich Biofuel Source

by Alan Yonan Jr. (Star Advertiser)  ...As the algae companies slowly move forward with their research and development, however, another source of renewable energy is blossoming -- literally -- on the Big Island. Hawaii Pure Plant Oil, or HIPPO, is

November 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae Fuel Inches Toward Price Parity with Oil

by Stacy Feldman ( SolveClimate/Reuters)  With over 100 start-ups hard at work, industry predicts it can deliver success in under a decade if granted production tax credits ...The head of the 170-member Algal Biomass Organization (ABO), Mary Rosenthal, predicts the fledgling fuel

November 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Ohio Company to Build 100-Acre Algae Production Site

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Independence Bio-Products Inc., a Dublin, Ohio-based algae production startup which secured its initial funding from a European investor two years ago, plans to break ground next year on a 100-acre commercial-scale algae production facility. The company is

November 22, 2010 Read Full Article

New York City Pilots Wastewater to Butanol

(Algae Industry Magazine)  From Sergio Hernandez at the Village Voice comes word that New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection has a new pilot program that will convert algae at a Queens waste-water treatment plant into biofuel for cars, by

November 22, 2010 Read Full Article

NAABB Consortium Announces Successful Conversion of Algal Oil to High Quality Biodiesel

(The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center)    National  Method employs cost saving catalyst and produces useful byproducts The National Alliance for Biofuels and Bioproducts (NAABB), a consortium of leading scientists and engineers from universities, private industry, and national laboratories announced today that they

November 22, 2010 Read Full Article

A.I.M. Interview: Gregory L. Bafalis, CEO, Aurora Algae

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)  Since June of this year, Greg Bafalis has been CEO of Aurora Algae, formerly Aurora Biofuels, overseeing the Company’s strategy, operations, and high-level relationships. ...Aurora was founded in 2006 by three gentlemen from U.C. Berkeley.

November 21, 2010 Read Full Article

PetroAlgae and Sky Airline to Collaborate on Offtake Strategy to Bring Green Jet Fuel to Chile

(PetroAlgae)   Joint Effort with Leading Airline Focuses on Renewable Jet Fuel PetroAlgae Inc., a leading U.S. renewable energy company that licenses its commercial micro-crop technology globally, today announced it has entered into a non-binding offtake supply agreement with Sky Airline, a

November 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Scientists Join Hands to Develop Biofuel from Microalgae

by Vijaysinh Parmar (Times of India)  Scientists from across the country, belonging to a consortium of nine laboratories, are working on an ambitious project called 'New Millennium India Technology Leadership Initiative' ( NMITLI), to develop a viable and scalable process

November 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Montana State University Using Baking Soda for Algae

(Algae Industry Magazine)  From Dan Boyce at Montana State University comes word that researchers there have found a way to get four times as much biofuel from a given amount of algae by adding baking soda, a concentrated source of carbon

November 12, 2010 Read Full Article

Young Algae Industry Getting Government Push

by Matthew Rivera (MSNBC.com)   ...Not only has the federal government invested heavily in the emerging biofuel, but the military has stepped up as a potential customer. Algae biofuel, while still experimental, also is attracting the attention of big oil companies

November 12, 2010 Read Full Article

Benefits of GE Guidelines for the Algae Industry

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Algae are an agricultural product and algae producers should consider the Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) guidelines developed in Europe and Asia as well as the US guidelines for genetic engineering (GE) of agricultural products.  ...  While algaculture will

November 11, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuel Focus Falls on Next Generations

by Paul Hanley (The StarPhoenix)  ...Today, algal growth is being looked at as a new source of biofuel. Biofuel -- fuel made from new plants (corn, canola, sugar cane) instead of old plants (petroleum) -- already makes up a small but

November 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Solazyme and Roquette Sign Agreement to Create Global Nutritional Joint Venture

(Solazyme)  Joint Venture will accelerate the Commercialization of Revolutionary Microalgae-Based Healthy Food Ingredients and Oils olazyme, Inc. the California-based leader in renewable oil and bioproducts and Roquette Frères, the global starch and starch-derivatives company headquartered in France, today announce that they

November 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Exxon’s SVP Swiger Says Lower Carbon with Algae

(Algae Industry Magazine)  In a keynote speech at this week’s Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, Andy Swiger, senior vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation, said that strong partnerships and innovation are crucial to meet rising global energy demand while

November 08, 2010 Read Full Article

PetroAlgae Protein Concentrate Confirmed as Replacement for High Quality Fishmeal in Tilapia Farming by University of Idaho Study

(BusinessWire/PetroAlgae) New Source of Protein Can Replace Menhaden Fishmeal in a Variety of Farmed Fish Species PetroAlgae Inc., a leading renewable energy company that licenses its commercial micro-crop technology globally, announced today that a third party study done by the Aquaculture Research

November 08, 2010 Read Full Article

Are Algae Genes Nature or Patentable?

by Dr. Mark Edwards (Algae Industry Magazine)  There are several firms in the algae industry engaged in genetic engineering, (GE), with the intention of patenting designer algal strains. Some organizations have filed patents for naturally occurring species that have valuable qualities

November 08, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae Biofuel Business Won’t Bloom Soon

by Steven E.F. Brown  (San Francisco Business Times)  A report from Berkeley’s Energy Biofuel Institute says developing and testing biofuel based on algae will likely take at least a decade. Even though about 100 companies in the United States are seeking this

November 04, 2010 Read Full Article

A.I.M. Interview: UTEX's Dr. Jerry Brand

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)  Dr. Jerry Brand, a PhD biologist and photosynthesis researcher, began his association with the UTEX Culture Collection of Algae in 1987, when he performed an extensive survey of the capacity for hydrogen gas production in

November 04, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae Project Gets $350,000 Boost

by Shelley Ridenour   (Daily Inter Lake)   Whitefish-based Algae Aquaculture Technologies has received a $350,000 grant from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to build a commercial algae greenhouse that converts waste wood chips into organic fertilizer. The 5,500-square-foot greenhouse will be constructed

November 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Revival! INEOS Awards $100 Million construction Contract for Florida Bioenergy Center

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Florida, INEOS New Planet BioEnergy has awarded the EPC contract to build its 8 million gallon per year advanced bioenergy facility in Vero Beach to AMEC of Tucker, GA. The facility will also produce up

November 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Facility to Focus on Alternative Fuel Technology

by Ronica Shannon (The Richmond Register)  A new research facility at Eastern Kentucky University could help the state become a national leader in alternative fuel technology, according to Sixth District Congressman Ben Chandler. Chandler was the keynote speaker Thursday at an

November 01, 2010 Read Full Article

Photon8 Developing ‘Drop-In’ Fuels from Algae

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Photon8, Inc., of Brownsville, TX, has announced that it has succeeded in producing “drop-in” fuel components from its “genetically improved” algae. The recent tests were performed by an undisclosed commercial laboratory using gas chromatography analysis for determining carbon

November 01, 2010 Read Full Article

The Future of Biofuels: The Post-Alcohol World

(The Economist)  Biofuels are back. This time they might even work. MAKE something people want to buy at a price they can afford. Hardly a revolutionary business strategy, but one that the American biofuels industry has, to date, eschewed. Now a new

October 29, 2010 Read Full Article

The Algae Bears Give Their Growl

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Pike Research released a report projecting the growth of algal fuel production to only 61 million gallons per year by 2020. Interestingly, the Pike Group projected an overall value of $1.3 billion, or more than $20

October 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Feedstock Logistics: Business Modeling/Planning for Commercial Algae Production

by Dr. Miles Palmer (Founder, Palmer Labs)  Dr. Palmer analyzes the capital and operating expenses for commercial algae production, with a variety of considerations. His analysis shows facilities larger than 400 acres can be profitable, with high internal rate of return for

October 27, 2010 Read Full Article

University of Hawaii's New Center Should Aid Renewables

by Sophie Cocke (Pacific Business News)  Monday’s grand opening of the Center for Microbial Oceanography at the University of Hawaii Manoa could work in tandem with the state’s push towards renewable energy. Microbial oceanography, an emerging sub-discipline within oceanography, studies marine microbes,

October 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Natural vs. Synthetic Flocculents

by Ed Laurent (Water & Oil Technologies, Inc./Algae Industry Magazine)  ...In algae production, if synthetic polymers are used to floc the high lipid content algae, and water is recycled back to your algae cultivation area, you are adding residual acrylamide

October 26, 2010 Read Full Article

Senator Nelson Wants Tax Break for Algae Biofuel Companies

by Eric Staats  (NaplesNews.com) ...Today, growing algae to turn into biofuel is serious business, and (US Senator Bill) Nelson wants to give the fledgling industry a tax break. Nelson, D-Fla., toured the headquarters and research labs of Algenol Biofuels off Alico Road

October 26, 2010 Read Full Article

Life Cycle Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for an Ethanol Production Process Based on Blue-Green Algae

by Dexin Luo, Zushou Hu, Dong Gu Choi, Valerie M. Thomas, Matthew J. Realff, and Ronald R. Chance (Environmental Science and Technology)  Ethanol can be produced via an intracellular photosynthetic process in cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), excreted through the cell walls, collected

October 26, 2010 Read Full Article

REVIVAL! Hawai’i Bi-O Style: Elite Squad of Scientists Aim to Boost Hawaii via Bioenergy

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Hawaii is a code word meaning “paradise” not only to sun-starved tourists, but to bioenergy developers. It has all the hallmarks of the “perfect market”. 1. A state that generates no energy from fossil fuels and

October 26, 2010 Read Full Article

Navy Unveils Its 'Mean, Green Riverine Machine' in Norfolk

by Bill Sizemore (Virginia-Pilot)  The Navy took a step toward breaking its dependence on petroleum Friday, powering up a boat with fuel derived in part from seaweed. In a demonstration at Norfolk Naval Station, an experimental boat was put through a series

October 25, 2010 Read Full Article

OriginOil Launches Expert Services Division

(Algae Industry Magazine)  ...“For the past three years, hundreds of large companies, entrepreneurs, development agencies and investors have asked for our help in launching their algae programs,” said OriginOil CEO, Riggs Eckelberry. “With our own products now hitting the market,

October 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Algal Biomass Organization Applauds Passage of Algae Parity Bill

(Algae Industry Magazine)  The Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) is praising the U.S. House of Representatives for passing H.R. 4168, the Algae-based Renewable Fuel Promotion Act. ABO specifically recognized Reps. Harry Teague (D-NM), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Brian

October 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Science Foundation Arizona and ASU Start Algae R&D Center

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) and Arizona State University (ASU) on have announced the creation of a world-class center dedicated to researching and bringing to fruition “green” technologies using algae. The announcement was made at the fourth annual gathering

October 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Boeing to Test China Biofuel

(Chicago Breaking Business/Dow Jones Newswire)  Boeing Co., in cooperation with Air China Ltd. and others, plans to test a commercial-jet biofuel in China produced from a locally grown plant by the middle of 2011-part of an effort to commercialize cleaner fuels

October 21, 2010 Read Full Article

OriginOil’s Riggs Eckelberry on CA Prop. 23

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)  California’s clean energy initiatives and businesses are at a crossroads, pending the outcome of Proposition 23 on the November ballot. Should the proposition succeed, it would suspend California’s 2006 history-making climate bill, AB32, which mandates,

October 21, 2010 Read Full Article

LakeMaster to Co-locate at Northern Biodiesel Refinery

(Algae Industry Magazine)  LakeMaster Corporation, of Rochester, NY, has announced a move to co-locate in space within the refinery of Northern Biodiesel, Inc. in Ontario, NY. LakeMaster will produce lipid oil made from algae as a feedstock for the NBI refinery

October 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Algenol Biofuels Opens State-of-the-Art Labs in Lee County, Florida

(Yahoo! Finance/PR Newswire) U.S. Rep. Connie Mack and Lee County Commissioners Tammy Hall and Ray Judah join in celebrating new advanced research labs and integrated biorefinery that will diversify local economy and create clean energy jobs Algenol Biofuels Inc. celebrated the opening

October 19, 2010 Read Full Article

Development of Technology to Produce Biodiesel from Microalgae

(FIS Worldnews)   A new project, which is financially supported by the Chilean government, will promote the diversification of energy through the production of biofuels from microalgae. The main objective of the initiative is to develop algae production which captures carbon dioxide

October 18, 2010 Read Full Article

Fishing Company Begins Cultivating Algae for Biofuel

by Analia Murias  (FIS Worldnews)   Pesquera San José plans to produce biofuels from brown algae (Macrocystis pyrifera), better known as huiro. With this objective in mind, the company is now co-developing the InnovaChile project BAL Biofuels, a consortium of biotechnology research, development and

October 18, 2010 Read Full Article

Nebraska Universities Win $20M Research Grant

(AP/Bloomberg Business Week)  Several Nebraska universities will share a $20 million grant to develop new research focused on algae and nanotechnology, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced Monday. Part of the five-year National Science Foundation grant will help one group of researchers build

October 18, 2010 Read Full Article

Predicting Algal Lipid Content Using NIR Spectroscopy

by Lieve Laurens, Ed Wolfrum, and Al Darzins  (NREL/Algae Industry Magazine)  At NREL’s National Bioenergy Center, we are working towards developing a new method for estimating the oil or lipid content and chemical composition in a wide range of algal strains

October 18, 2010 Read Full Article

National Algae Association Looking to Fast-Track Commercialization

(Algae Industry Magazine)  The National Algae Association’s (NAA) collective of producers, researchers, technologists, engineering and equipment manufacturers have developed preliminary designs for a 100-acre commercial-scale algae production system and have identified the majority of the CAPEX and OPEX issues, according to

October 16, 2010 Read Full Article

Compact Contractors for America Developing Powdered Algae as Jet Fuel

by Tamra Fakhoorian  (Algae Industry Magazine)  Recent press about the seemingly novel concept of powdered algae as a jet engine fuel has raised eyebrows in the airline industry, and among competing algae processing technologies. However, Robert Fulton, president of Utah-based Compact

October 15, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae Power Reaches for the Sky

by Catriona Davies (CNN)   Air travel could be powered from vast seas of algae growing close to airports within four years, according to researchers and airlines hoping to find a green future for aviation.Industry giants including British Airways and Airbus are

October 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Ford Scientists to Explore Algae Biofuels

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Ford Motor Company scientists have announced that they are working to understand the suitability of algae as potential automotive biofuels. This effort is an integral part of Ford’s desire to better understand the use of biomass to produce

October 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae Industry Growth and Future Directions

by Mark Edwards  (Algae Industry Magazine)  ...The 2010 Algae World Europe Industry Survey was conducted in association with the Centre for Management Technology and 2nd Algae World Europe 2010 Conference in Brussels. The 2010 Algae World Survey follows the 2009

October 14, 2010 Read Full Article

The Culture Club: The World of Algae R&D and Commercialization, an Inside View, in Pictures

by Will Thurmond (Biofuels Digest) What exactly does the commercialization and research effort on algal fuels look like? A collection of highly funded home brewers? Secretive temples of technology peopled with mad scientists intent on unleashing bizarre Frankenfuels on an

October 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Arizona Firm Banks on Farm Troughs for Commercializing Algae

by Rebecca McClay (Arizona Capitol Times)  ...One Arizona firm, Phyco Biosciences, is banking on its agricultural-style series of plastic-lined troughs bubbling with oxygen and nutrients to commercialize algae biomass. The Phyco system is different from the standard mass-cultivation process of growing

October 08, 2010 Read Full Article

Montana State University Researchers Discover Chemical Trigger that Doubles the Yield of Algal Lipids for Biodiesel from Farmed Algae

(MSU News Service)  Algal biofuel production could double in yield and in far less time, thanks to a chemical trigger discovered at Montana State University. The chemical trigger is a well-timed dose of bicarbonate, a low-cost, easy-to-use chemical, similar to common

October 08, 2010 Read Full Article

Growth of Biofuel Industry Hurt by GMO Regulations, Say Experts

(Science Daily)  Faster development of the promising field of cellulosic biofuels -- the renewable energy produced from grasses and trees -- is being significantly hampered by a "deep and thorny regulatory thicket" that makes almost impossible the use of advanced

October 07, 2010 Read Full Article

Friends of the Earth Calls for Moratorium on Synthetic Bio-Based Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Washington, Friends of the Earth released a report “Synthetic Solutions to the Climate Crisis: The Dangers of Synthetic Biology for Biofuels Production,” concluding that synthetic biology projects including the creation of algae with synthetic

October 04, 2010 Read Full Article

Taiwan Unveils Microalgal Biofuel Technology

(Focus Taiwan)  ...The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) , which developed the technology, showed off the process of turning microalgae into biodiesel at the four-day Taipei International Invention Show and Technomart exhibition organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council... During

October 04, 2010 Read Full Article

Ford Joins in Researching Algae for Vehicle Fuel

(USA Today)  ...Ford says it wants to better understand the use of biomass to produce future biofuels as part of an overall strategy to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil and address climate change. ...This year, Ford researchers visited Wayne

October 04, 2010 Read Full Article

Seaweed: A New Wave of Investment in Macro-Algae

by Will Thurmond (Biofuels Digest/Emerging Markets Online)  Macro-algae attracts greater investment for sugar-based Advanced Biofuels, Drop-In Fuels and Chemicals An emerging rise in investment in from petrochemical majors and governments in Asia, Europe and the Americas aims at extracting sugars from

October 04, 2010 Read Full Article

EUR 6.1 mln Project to Farm Algae for Biofuels

(FIS)  Scientists are proposing the creation of methane gas from algae grown in great offshore farms to power adapted vehicles. A new GBP 5 million (EUR 6.1 million) UK and Irish joint project called BioMara disclosed the plan and seeks to

September 30, 2010 Read Full Article

William & Mary Receives $500,000 for Biofuel Study

(TAPPI)  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Washington, D.C., USA, has awarded the College of William & Mary, WIlliansburg, Va., $500,000 to study various aspects of using wild aquatic algae as both biofuel feedstock and as a medium for helping to

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Colorado State University Study: Turning Algae Into Fuel Is Ecofriendly

(CBS4Denver.com/AP)  A Colorado State University study says turning algae into a biofuel is more environmentally friendly than the process for petroleum diesel or soy biodiesel. The study based its conclusion on the complete process for each fuel and included factors such

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Genome of Chlorella Microalgae Decoded

(Algae Industry Magazine)  The analysis of the complete genome of Chlorella microalgae, a promising genus for biofuel production, has been completed by the Laboratoire Information Génomique et Structurale of CNRS. The Laboratory is currently heading an international collaboration involving American and

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

EPA Helps to Launch Science and Engineering Festival

(US Environmental Protection Agency)  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development, Paul Anastas, joins other science leaders to kick off the USA Science and Engineering Festival on September 29 in Washington, D.C. Dr.

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Green Star Signs Contract to Fabricate Biodiesel Plant for Processing Algae Oil

(Green Star Products)  Green Star Products, Inc., announced it has signed a contract to build a biodiesel facility. This is the first of several contracts in conjunction with an ambitious Algae-to-Biodiesel project on the west coast. Green Star has already started fabrication

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Phyco BioSciences and CBE to Develop Algae in China

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Phyco BioSciences, Inc., has announced an agreement with Hong Kong based China Biological Engineering, Limited to develop two projects in the Peoples Republic of China beginning this Fall. The first project is a joint venture in JaingShu Province

September 27, 2010 Read Full Article

The A.I.M. Interview: Algae Genetic Engineer Dr. Stephen Mayfield

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)  If moving genes around on a chromosome is your idea of a good time, meet Dr. Stephen Mayfield, Director of the San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology. ...Steve is now the John Dove Isaacs Professor

September 23, 2010 Read Full Article

The Biorefinery Project of the Future: A 10-Part Series

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...We have spoken to farmers, local business owners, environmentalists, community development officials, engine developers, scientists, policy makers, producers, investors, lenders, blenders, wholesalers, retailers, and end users. We have visited development projects on four continents. We have

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Hoover Eyed for Site to Grow Algae for Biofuel

by Val Walton (The Birmingham News)  Hoover Mayor Tony Petelos wrote a letter of support last week for the SouthEast Region Algae Consortium (SERAC) -- a group of scientists, engineers and experts in biofuels and algae research which is pursuing a

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Green race: Algae-to-Biofuel Firm Announces Breakthroughs

by Steve Clark (The Brownsville Herald)  Photon8 Inc., Brad Bartilson’s Brownsville-based startup company, has managed to plow through some sticky issues in its quest for commercially feasible algae-to-biofuel production and is two years ahead of schedule in terms of production milestones.In

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Renewable Algal Energy Scores $3 Million from DOE

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Renewable Algal Energy, LLC of Kingsport, Tennessee, has announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded them $3,000,000 to develop “Algal Biodiesel via Innovative Harvesting and Aquaculture Systems.”   READ MORE  and MORE  (Department of Energy)

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Airbus and British Airways Join Cranfield U. on Algae for Aviation Fuel

(Algae Industry Magazine)  The Sustainable Use of Renewable Fuels (SURF) consortium, which brings together Airbus, British Airways, Rolls-Royce, Finnair, Gatwick Airport, IATA and Cranfield University was announced at this week’s Aviation and Environment Summit in Geneva. The consortium will take a

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Hatcher Team Creates New Process to Boost Biofuel Production from Algae

(Old Dominion University)  ...During the past five years, researchers at Old Dominion University have devised ways to cultivate and harvest microscopic algae, and then to convert them into a biodiesel fuel by a proprietary one-step process. Now they have discovered

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Statoil Invests In Ethanol-From-Seaweed Venture In California

by Angel Gonzalez  (Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal)  Norwegian oil major Statoil ASA (STO) has agreed to invest in a San Francisco Bay Area start-up to develop ethanol from seaweed, and to potentially commercialize the fuel in Norway and other European countries. Under the

September 16, 2010 Read Full Article

The A.I.M. Interview: Dr. Danny Kainer

by David Schwartz  (Algae Industry Magazine)  Training a workforce for the algae production industry is going to be a Catch 22 type of situation. It will take a large community of workers with highly developed skills to build the quantity of

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

His Corporate Strategy: The Scientific Method

by Andrew Pollack  (New York Times) ...Now Dr. Venter is turning from reading the genetic code to an even more audacious goal: writing it. At Synthetic Genomics, he wants to create living creatures — bacteria, algae or even plants —

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Extraction of Sugars from Algae for Direct Conversion to Butanol

The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is a recipient of a $10,000 EPA People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Phase I grant. ...(A)lthough much research has been done on trying to convert algae oils into biodiesel, little has been done on

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

SRSenergy and Partners Secure $6.2 Million DOE Contract

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Solution Recovery Services, of Dexter Michigan, an employee owned industry leader in oil separation and purification systems has partnered with Touchstone Research Laboratory, a privately owned U.S. company with principal operations in Triadelphia, W.V. The project team together

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Green Jet Fuel Takes Flight

by Tyler Hamilton (Toronto Star) Could a unique microorganism found in the waters of Atlantic Canada represent the future of jet fuel production? That’s what Halifax-based Ocean Nutrition Canada is hoping to find out as part of a four-year demonstration project funded

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae-Based Biofuel Plant to Be Built in Puerto Rico

by By Jorge J. Muñiz Ortiz   (Latin American Herald Tribune)   State-owned utility AEE and the firm Bio-Lipidos on Thursday announced plans to build a plant in northern Puerto Rico that will produce a pure fuel based on tropical marine micro-algae. AEE’s executive

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Thailand Energy Authorities to Finance Research on Algae Biofuel

(AzoCleanTech)  ...The two universities currently conducting the algae research are the Kasetsart University in the area of freshwater algae and the Burapha University in the area of marine algae. The Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency Department will not only provide financial

September 10, 2010 Read Full Article

DOE Announces Awards for up to $16.5 Million for Biomass Research and Development

(US Department of Energy)  U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced September 8, 2010, the investment of up to $16.5 million for two major research and development (R&D) initiatives that will support the expansion of renewable transportation fuels production. The first initiative

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

A New Start: NREL Aquatic Species Program

by Lisa Gibson (Biomass Magazine) Ten years after NREL’s Aquatic Species Program was shut down, a similar initiative began and now is thriving in its algae research, which includes the evaluation of CO2 recycling. Between 1978 and 1996, the Aquatic Species Program at

September 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae Bioenergy Solutions Plans Scale-Up in Georgia

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Algae Bioenergy Solutions (ABS), of Augusta, Georgia, has announced preliminary plans to develop a three to five million gallons per year algae oil plant, expandable to forty million gallons a year, to produce feedstock for biodiesel and other

September 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Sorting Algal Strains for High Lipid Content Using NIR

(Algae Industry Magazine)  A recent post in Forbes by Chris Rhodes currently buzzing talks about a new method for identifying high lipid content strains of algae based on Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. The near infrared wavelength spectrum occupies from 800–2500 nm,

September 01, 2010 Read Full Article

New Process for Production of Biodiesel Directly From Wet Algal Biomass Could Reduce Energy and Financial Costs

(Green Car Congress/FavStocks)  Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed and demonstrated the feasibility of a two-step hydrolysis-solvolysis process to produce biodiesel directly from wet algal biomass. Their process eliminates the need for biomass drying, organic solvent extraction, and

September 01, 2010 Read Full Article

Arizona Set to Become Center for Algae-Based, Biofuel Industry

by William Hermann(The Arizona Republic)   Clean, green energy source could replace fossil fuels. ...With its ideal climate and abundance of available land, Arizona is poised to become a major center of a multibillion-dollar, algae-based, biofuel industry. Scientists at Arizona State University's Polytechnic

August 31, 2010 Read Full Article

Arizona Set to Become Center for Algae-Based, Biofuel Industry

by William Hermann (The Arizona Republic)  Arizonans have cleaned algae from cattle tanks, swimming pools and fish tanks for decades. Now, Arizona researchers are developing algae as a promising 21st-century alternative fuel to power cars, trucks and planes and propel the

August 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Pond Scum Seen Lucrative in Argentine Biofuels Push

by Luis Andres Henao (Reuters)   An Argentine company opened Friday the country's first factory to make biodiesel from algae, hoping to use pond scum as a replacement for soy in making biodiesel as part of a push for renewable energy. Argentina is

August 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae.Tec Off and Running

by Greg Peel  (ninemsn)  ...Algae.Tec is also in the process of an IPO. However at A$7.5m, Algae.Tec's issue is hardly one that can be described as exploitative or prematurely opportunistic, and the company's legally protected intellectual property represents years of

August 27, 2010 Read Full Article

ABO in Final Preparation of “Minimum Descriptive Language” Document

(Algal Industry Magazine)  The Technical Standards Committee of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) is currently in late stage review of its Algal Industry Minimum Descriptive Language Document, recommended for characterizing the economic and environmental inputs and outputs of an aquatic biomass

August 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Syracuse University Research Team Uses Nanobiotechnology-Manipulated Light Particles to Accelerate Algae Growth

by Ariel DuChene  (Syracuse University)  Scientists and engineers seek to meet three goals in the production of biofuels from non-edible sources such as microalgae: efficiency, economical production and ecological sustainability. Syracuse University’s Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, professor and chair of biomedical and

August 25, 2010 Read Full Article

Biodiesel Industries Selected for Proposed Grant by the California Energy Commission

(PRNewsWire)  Biodiesel Industries announced today the company's selection by the California Energy Commission for a project grant to support the state's Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. This Biofuel Production Plants grant provides funding and financial assistance for the

August 25, 2010 Read Full Article

A European Perspective on Algal Biofuel Scaleup

(Algae Industry Magazine)  An article by Rene H. Wijffels and Maria J. Barbosa, of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, published in the current edition of Science Journal, details the challenges and opportunities of algal biofuel development from a European perspective.

August 24, 2010 Read Full Article

The Green Behind Green Crude

By Jennifer McEntee  (The Voice of San Diego)   Investors are a tough crowd to cultivate. Yet in the pond that is the biotechnology market, one product seems to be rising to the top like the green sludge it is: algae. Its

August 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Joule Unlimited: ‘Fuel from Thin Air’ Comes Closer, Clearer

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Massachusetts, the secretive Joule Unlimited (then known as Joule Biotechnologies) emerged late last year from “stealth mode” with the startling announcement that their technology could produce up to 15,000 gallons per acre of drop-in hydrocarbon

August 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Third and Fourth Generation Biofuels: Technologies, Markets and Economics Through 2015

(GTM Research)  ...In this report, we focus on "third-generation" algae biofuels and "fourth-generation" biofuels that are either created using petroleum-like hydroprocessing, advanced bio-chemistry, or revolutionary processes like Joule’s "solar-to-fuel" method that defies any other category of biofuels. The opportunities that

August 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Robert Vitale Reinvents the Paddlewheel

by Tamra Fakhoorian  (Algae Industry Magazine)  Reinventing the wheel is usually frowned upon, but in the case of the Waterwheel Factory’s development of high-tech paddlewheels for open pond raceways, it is paying off nicely in terms of better efficiencies for the

August 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Company to Demonstrate Ethanol Extraction in Woodbine

by Ben Leach  (Press of Atlantic City)  A multimillion-dollar ethanol plant is planned for a former landfill site, but members of the community can get a sneak peak of the technology in action next week. Garden State Ethanol will demonstrate extracting the

August 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Deadline Set for Logan Cleanup / Biofuel May Be Answer to Sewage Lagoon Algae Woes

(Standard-Examiner)    Utah environmental regulators have set a seven-year deadline for Logan officials to cut the amount of phosphorus in sewage lagoons west of the city. Water from the lagoons discharges into Cutler Reservoir. Phosphorous fuels algae blooms that produce oxygen during the day,

August 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Another Brick in the (Blend) Wall: Key Thresholds and Barriers for Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...But even were the US EPA to approve E15 ethanol blending, there are some other significant walls and thresholds to keep in mind. Here are the Digest’s Top 10. 1. The $60 oil parity wall.  At the

August 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae Fuel Effort Grows: Tulsa University Students Researching Alternatives

by Rod Walton   (Tulsa World)  ..."I got into it because of the potential with algae," said Geoffrey Price, professor, department chairman and part of the research team. "It's because they take in sunlight more efficiently than other plants." Price and his

August 19, 2010 Read Full Article

New Mexico Algae Project Receives Funding

by Erin Voegele  (Biodiesel Magazine)   New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson recently announced that $200,000 in Recovery Act funding has been awarded to New Mexico State University. A portion of that funding will go to the university’s Renewable Energy, Water and

August 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Ethanol Generated from Seaweed

(The Japan Times)   Scientists from Tohoku University and Tohoku Electric Power Co. have developed a technology to efficiently generate ethanol from seaweed such as sea tangle and sea grape, group members said Saturday.  The technology uses natural yeast discovered by the group

August 17, 2010 Read Full Article

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Rebrands as BlueFire Renewables, Inc.

(Blue Fire Renewables)  Name Change Designed to Better Reflect Its Fuel and Energy Production Capabilities BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc., a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, today announced that

August 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Industrial Production Algal Biodiesel Feasible within a Half Decade

(Wageningen University/Science Daily)   Within 10 to 15 years, it will be technically possible to produce sustainable and economically viable biodiesel from micro-algae on a large scale. Technological innovations during this period should extend the scale of production by a factor of

August 16, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae – Will Bulls or Bears rule?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)   ...A significant number of voices in the community continue to caution that algal biofuels are 10 years away, or likely to arrive at commercial scale only in the waning years of the existing Renewable Fuel

August 16, 2010 Read Full Article

LakeMaster Building Algae-to-Biofuel System

by Joseph Holroyd  (Algae Industry Magazine)  LakeMaster Corporation, a clean energy technology company headquartered in Rochester, New York, is engaged in the development and commercialization of a proprietary algal to biofuel system that captures carbon dioxide. The company recently filed for

August 13, 2010 Read Full Article

The AIM Interview: OriginOil’s Brian Goodall

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)   ... “I’ve always wanted to work on things that are really important, at least to the company where I’m working and, ideally, beyond that. I don’t mind how big the challenge is or how hard

August 12, 2010 Read Full Article

PetroAlgae Files for $200M IPO; Goldman, UBS, Citi, Piper Jaffray Underwriting

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The announcement was greeted with a hilariously inaccurate story in the New York Times, which apparently confused PetroAlgae’s technology with the OMEGA project developed by NASA (NASA proposed to grow algae in sealed bags floating

August 12, 2010 Read Full Article

What’s New and Cool: What Inventors are Inventing in Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Washington, here’s a look at some of the more interesting biofuel-related patent applications logged at the US Patent and Trademark Office in recent weeks. The USPTO’s archive is not for the faint of heart, or

August 11, 2010 Read Full Article

What’s “New and Cool” in the World of Algal Fuel Development

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...On the microcrop, bacterial and algael research front. Lemna... The Archaea... Electricity from Waste via microbes...   READ MORE

August 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Sapphire Energy Poised to Make ’Super Algae’ a Competitive Energy Source

by Bryant Furlow  (New Mexico Independent)  ...Sapphire has inserted genes into its algae that alter the hydrocarbons algae normally produce, making it more like petroleum from which jet fuel and bio-diesel can be manufactured. The company has also inserted the

August 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Solazyme Takes Lead in Race for Commercialized Algal Oil; Raises $52M for Algal Fuel Expansion

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Solazyme, which was ranked #1 in the 2009-10 “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” by Biofuels Digest readers and selectors, announced that it has raised $52 million in its Series D financing round.... In addition to its

August 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Gulf Disaster Renews Interest in Biofuel Technology

by Patrick Peterson (Florida Today)  Even as last of BP oil spilled on the Gulf Coast dissipates, interest in Florida's biofuel industry piqued by the spill may linger, and even grow. For the moment certainly, biofuels such as ethanol and algae-derived diesel

August 09, 2010 Read Full Article

NSF Grant to NC State U. for Algae Biofuel from Dunaliella

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Dr. William L. Roberts, a professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University, and his colleagues, four biologists and three engineers, are working on ways to produce and extract lipids from

August 09, 2010 Read Full Article

The Race to Make Fuel Out of Algae Poses Risks as Well as Benefits

by Dina Fine Maron  (ClimateWire) One day, Big Algae may be competitive with Big Oil, but as researchers search for the ideal oil-producing algae strain to grow in commercial quantities, there are still a host of uncertainties standing in the

August 04, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae Biofuel Grown in Bioreactors Has 3.7x the Carbon Footprint of Petro-Diesel: Study

by Matthew McDermott (Treehugger)  ...According to Anna Stephenson from the University of Cambridge, when algae is grown in clear-tubed bioreactors the energy required to move the algae around so that it gets enough sunlight means that per megajoule equivalent of

August 03, 2010 Read Full Article

OriginOil Announces Revenue from First Customer

(OriginOil)  Shipment of OriginOil Quantum Fracturing System to MBD Energy Triggers Payment OriginOil, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced that it recently

July 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Researchers Work to Fill Biofuel Gap

by Ashley Bray (Minnesota Daily)  The University (of Minnesota)’s Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering is working to develop sustainable, domestic biomass solutions. ...The University’s Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering — a division of the College of Food, Agricultural and

July 30, 2010 Read Full Article

The AIM Interview: LANL’s José Olivares

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)  National security is at the root of the nearly seventy-year old Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the world’s leading scientific research institutions. While originally organized for a single purpose: to design and build the

July 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Rosetta Green and Seambiotic to Collaborate for Algal Biofuel

(Algae Industry Magazine)   Rosetta Green, a company specializing in the identification of unique genes in plants and algae for the cleantech and plant biotech industries, and Seambiotic, a company specializing in the growth of algae at industrial scale, have announced that

July 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Exploring Algae as Fuel

by Andrew Pollack  (New York Times)  ...“We’ve probably engineered over 4,000 strains,” said Mike Mendez, a co-founder and vice president for technology at Sapphire Energy, the owner of the laboratory. “My whole goal here at Sapphire is to domesticate algae,

July 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Green Plains Renewable Energy Moves on Algae, Corn Oil Extraction

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. is moving to Phase II with its algae project at one plant and planning to install corn oil extraction technology at all six of its ethanol plants. On July 20,

July 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Renewergy Develops Aeroponic Algal System

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Renewergy Corporation, of Erie, PA, has begun cultivating algae with its patent pending Aeroponic Algal Culture system at the Erie Wastewater Treatment Facility. The system is designed to encourage and enhance the growth of naturally occurring algae with nutrients from the

July 24, 2010 Read Full Article
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