A comment by a visitor to an earlier post on egging others to explore algae-based biodiesel prompted me to check for more resources on collaborating to explore algae-based oil… Found an interesting forum at BioForge that discusses how to collaborate on biodiesel initiatives, with a bit of focus on algae. Another well-known forum is a […]

Excerpt of an article  from United Press International… “U.S. military wants to reduce its dependence on oil to power its aircraft, vehicles and ships, and is seeking plant-based materials to replace petroleum fuels. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency published a request for biodiesel fuels produced from plants, algae, fungi and bacteria that would be […]

Researchers at the South Australian Research and Development Institute will embark this month on a three year research program to investigate the viability of the use of Oil-rich Algae. The article says “Micro-algae are known to accumulate oil up to 60 to 70 per cent of their weight”…I’m not sure the percentages are that high […]

Got this note through email from one Tom Catino, I’m posting this here South Africa: De Beers to Get Biodiesel Licence July 21, 2006 Posted to the web July 21, 2006 Siseko Njobeni Johannesburg The  South African Revenue Service (SARS) is on the verge of licensing local biodiesel producer De Beers Fuel’s commercial biodiesel production […]

Read in some newspapers today, presenting a summary A Spanish company claimed to have developed a method of breeding plankton and turning the marine plants into oil…the company, Bio Fuel Systems is a wholly Spanish firm, formed this year in eastern Spain after three years of research by scientists and engineers connected with the University […]

Two news items for today: (taken from Oilgae.com Algae Biodiesel News Section) Microalgae Could Provide Alternative Fuel – South Australia’s Research and Development Institute (SARDI) hopes to turn micro-algae into an alternative fuel as part of a million-dollar research program – Jul 20, 2006 – read here Algae Project Wins Renewable Energy Grant – A […]

A user posted the following, which I thought was worth discussing: “This pertains to another comment about using sewage lagoons of small communities to grow microalgae. It would seem that the University of New Hampshire is already involved in research about ‘Growing Microalgae from Sewage Lagoons’. Of particular note is that algae ponds are used […]

Just begun! Just started this blog, and hope to have this serve as a forum for discussing biodiesel production from algae! For more inputs on the potential for biodiesel production from algae, see the homepage http://www.oilgae.com and kindly browse through the content. I am hoping to become a bit less lazy and start posting to […]