You are at: Oilgae Blog. The developer of a breakthrough renewable oil technology has sought out help from the Idaho National Laboratory to help them develop a way to help ease our country’s dependence on foreign oil. A company called Origin Oil from Los Angeles has come up with technology to speed up the process […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Waltham Technologies, Inc. is focusing on developing and commercializing innovative methods to clean water.Waltham Technologies System safely bioengineers algae so the organism’s required production of Vitamin B12 is chained to the production of new genes. These introduced genes enable the organisms to rapidly digest contaminates in the water and produce […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Los Angeles-based algae oil technology developer OriginOil Inc. has signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory in an effort to help validate and commercialize OriginOil’s algae-to-oil technology into the mainstream market. The multi-phase research program will focus on commercial scaling of OriginOil’s technology in the production […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. In an effort to build a leading research center in biofuels, Utah State University last summer negotiated with a top algae biologist to join one of its new USTAR teams. The group needs a biologist to draw a complete picture for turning high-lipid algae into a renewable-energy source. The state […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Innovation Fuels, the renewable energy company with shovel-ready projects in New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin that manufactures, markets, and distributes second-generation biodiesel to customers around the world, was lauded for its clean fuel initiatives and green job growth during Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker’s 2009 State of the City […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. SOLARVEST BIOENERGY INC., a renewable energy company committed to the development of sustainable alternative energy sources, is pleased to announce that it has been selected for an Atlantic Innovation Fund award. The award entitles Solarvest to receive up to $1.9 million in funding. Solarvest’s AIF project involves using its technology […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Aisenbrey has worked for CTW Energy, a small alternative energy company with offices in Bozeman and Deer Lodge, an combined effort to de4rive energy from algae. The company is developing a system that will use algae to cleanse wastewater, said Joseph Menicucci Jr., the owner of CTW and an adjunct […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. “The initiative includes San Diego’s growing mini-cluster of algae-based biofuels startups” Halperin says “the effort also plans to rely on a recent macro-economic study on “mega-region” economic development that identifies ways in which groups in San Diego and Imperial Counties can collaborate” Imperial County, which borders Mexico between San Diego […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Two key genes of the translational apparatus, elongation factor-1 alpha (EF-1alpha) and elongation factor-like (EFL) have an almost mutually exclusive distribution in eukaryotes. In the green plant lineage, the Chlorophyta encode EFL except Acetabularia where EF-1alpha is found, and the Streptophyta possess EF-1alpha except Mesostigma, which has EFL. These results […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Dutch biotechnology firm Ingrepro plans to harness waste from sewers, farms and industry to produce biofuel and algae, which it hopes will eventually power airplanes, its chief executive said on Thursday. This is an indeed an excellent effort to produce energy from waste. Ingrepro plans four initial projects in the […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. David Van Alstyne’s Scottish Bioenergy Cooperative Ventures is preparing to roll out technology which could allow drinks firms to convert wasteful by-products into valuable resources using humble algae after winning £40,000 under Shell’s Springboard programme. The two firms hope to use bioreactors produced by Scottish Bioenergy to achieve a big […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Both the House and Senate bills allot billions of dollars in research funds for carbon capture and storage — a very expensive and still unproven method of capturing carbon emissions and storing them underground. A pilot project at the Schwarze Pumpe coal power plant in Germany can capture and store […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. JetBlue Airways will operate a second-generation biofuel test following demonstrations by Air New Zealand (ANZ), Continental Airlines and Japan Airlines (JAL).The low-cost carrier is preparing for an Airbus A320-200 trial by spring 2010, a JetBlue spokesman tells ATI. JetBlue teamed up with Airbus, International Aero Engines (IAE) and Honeywell fuel […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Plymouth Marine Laboratory says it is taking existing knowledge about algae in the world’s oceans and applying it to biotechnology, an approach which differs from much of the commercial research underway, where some claims about the possibilities of algal biofuels are overstated, according to Carole Llewellyn, a marine chemist. “They […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Pond scum could fuel fighter jets and go a long way toward cleaning up power plants, which is why the Pentagon, Silicon Valley, and some of the world’s top research institutions are digging into it. One place algae’s having a tough time making inroads, however, is in a multibillion-dollar section […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. In principle carbon capture using regenerative agriculture, ocean seeding/phytoplankton growth, biochar and algae production, coupled with societal relocalisation could become carbon negative to the tune of – 3 Gt of carbon per year, and yield a similar amount of useful biomass. However, if phytoplankton could be caused to bloom, 1 […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Diamond Head Renewable Resources is a local company that will build a commercial energy and ethanol plant in Honolulu. This will be the fist refinery of it’s kind in America to include GHGs (Green House Gas) recycling with algae. It will be a closed system process by not just venting […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Founders of PetroAlgae, with its home office in Melbourne, started growing algae in Fellsmere in 2006, on former wholesale greenhouse land, after getting special cultures from the University of Arizona, Tennant said. Since then, he said, the company has expanded from the lab to small-scale outdoor production with 35 of […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Kayaletu Makasi lives on a pretty little smallholding on the road to Chintsa. He has 17 cows, three pigs and a gaggle of chickens. He feeds their manure (about 20 litres a week) into a small digester and in return he gets an unlimited supply of free fuel, highly nutritious […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Snell, a Woolwich resident, is studying the rate at which sea lettuce ulva lactuca can biologically gobble up carbon dioxide The academic project began early in his junior year at Wiscasset High and continued through the summer at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay Harbor, before Snell returned […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Algenol Biofuels and Sapphire Energy still shows some progress in Algae Fuel Industry. The latter, which rapidly raised over $100 million in venture capital last year, was recently involved in a test flight by Continental Airlines. Trying out biofuels in jets has become a popular PR move over the past […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Researcher Tasios Melis argues that a larger chlorophyll antenna helps the organism compete for sunlight absorption and survive in the wild, where sunlight is often limited but is detrimental to the engineering-driven effort of using algae to convert sunlight into biofuel. Besides getting the algae to convert more sunlight to […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The minister was speaking at the inauguration of a CEO forum associated with the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) organised by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Pointing out that India was already facing huge problems in areas like water supply and agriculture, Ramesh said: “Domestic imperatives should force us […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. One can grow algae but it doesn’t mean its free.Although algae is believed to be one of the chief feedstocks for biodiesel, growing large amounts of algae and then converting the single-celled creatures remains expensive. Algae biofuel startup Solix, for instance, can produce biofuel from algae right now, but it […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. This week, the country’s leading thinkers on biodiesel are in San Francisco for the 2009 National Biodiesel Conference and Expo. Some of the highlights include: One of the more cost effective places to grow biodiesel in the country could be the side of the road, according to Dallas Hanks from […]