You are at: Oilgae Blog. A pilot project is underway in Vermont. Testing whether algae along with milfoil, an invasive water weed, can generate energy on farms. This system builds on cow power- recycling even more of the waste to grow the algae. Mark Hoffman is busy growing the farm’s newest crop inside a small […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press Release:  September 17-18, 2009 Sheraton North Houston   THE WOODLANDS, Texas (August 25, 2009) In support of its recent Response to The Department of Energy’s National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap, the National Algae Association’s next conference, Algae: The New Oil, will cover a full range of subjects focusing on the […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Aquentium, Inc., a publicly traded company in the United States of America announced that the company has secured 475 acres in the State of New Mexico for the development of an algae bio-fuel production facility. “As we enter this Green Era, by getting ahead of the curve, Aquentium can produce […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. CNN news says, three years ago many would have dismissed the notion that a significant supply of the world’s automotive fuel could come from algae. But today the idea, while still an adventurous one, is getting much harder to ignore. Back then there were only a handful of companies seriously […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Algae-based biofuel developer Plankton Power and the Regional Technology Development Corp. of Cape Cod, Mass., announced a collaboration to construct a pilot-scale algae-based biodiesel production facility as a part of their energy from waste efforts in Bourne, Mass.The Cape Cod Algae Biorefinery will be located on five acres on the […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Algae business potential is growing rapidly. PetroAlgae does not make fuel from algae, but sells licenses — blueprints for how to make oil from algae, one of the oldest life forms on the planet. PetroAlgae says its process of maximizing the flow of light to organisms pushes algae to grow […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Craig Venter, who led a private project to sequence the human genome, told The Times that his team had cleared a critical hurdle to creating man-made organisms in a laboratory.  “Assuming we don’t make any errors, I think it should work and we should have the first synthetic species by […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog Here is yet another effort of Algae Co2 Sequestration. Aurora Biofuels, says it has cultivated algae that doubles production of biodiesel by absorbing more than twice as much carbon dioxide as conventional strains.According to Robert Walsh, the chief executive of the company, Aurora’s breakthrough was to develop algae mutations that […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Congresswoman Mazie K. Hirono today announced the awarding of $2,264,000 in U.S. Department of Commerce grant funding for the construction of a Renewable Energy Resource Center and the design of a municipal parking lot on the island of Maui. The federal funding will be distributed through the DOC’s Economic Development […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. “Under a Space Act Agreement, NASA is partnering with Seambiotic USA to model growth processes for microalgae for use as aviation biofuel feedstock,” said Ami Ben-Amotz, chief scientific adviser to Israeli-based Seambiotic Ltd. One of SGI’s achievements has been in engineering algal strains that produce lipids in a continuous process […]

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. BP recently announced an investment of $10 million in a new initiative to develop sugar to biodiesal methodologies. Essentially that means figuring out a way to convert sugar into fuel efficiently using microbial organisms like algae.When it comes to algae though, Exxon has taken a strong lead with its investment […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Aurora Biofuels says it has a species of algae that breeds like a rabbit. The Alameda, Calif.-based company has identified and optimized a genetic pathway in a species of wild algae that effectively turbocharges the growth and breeding cycle of the single-celled creature. As a result, the company says it […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Premier Mike Rann met for an hour yesterday with Neal Blue, the chief executive officer of General Atomics, which owns the Beverley uranium deposits in SA’s Far North. Mr Rann said SA was now poised to become a national leader in refining biosynthetic fuels, with the potential to create thousands […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Dr. John Benemann, one of the authors of a seminal U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory report from 1998 on biofuel from algae and an internationally-recognized bioenergy expert said he thinks LiveFuels is “in as good of shape as anybody” to make its R&D happen. Morgenthaler-Jones said LiveFuels has been taking […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Managing director Andrew Lawson says testing at James Cook University in Townsville suggests for every two tonnes of carbon captured, the MBD technology can produce almost 1 tonne of algae, of which one-third can be made into oil products and two-thirds into meal. With meal sales about $400/tonne (rival soymeal […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. With the twin goals of making fuel from algae and reducing emissions  of heat-trapping gases, a start-up company Solix, co-founded by a Colorado State University professor Bryan wilson recently introduced a strain of algae that loves carbon dioxide into a water tank next to a natural gas processing plant. The […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. LiveFuels CEO Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones describes her San Carlos, Calif.-based company’s process as ‘we cook them and squeeze them’ for turning algae-fed fish into oil for fuel using heat and high pressure. It’s a gruesome way of harvesting pond scum than the mechanical equipment employed by other startups working on algal […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press release: Algae: The New Oil September 17-18, 2009  THE WOODLANDS, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–National Algae Association is pleased to announce that it has awarded the first scholarship from its scholarship fund to Waldemar Juschin, a student at Delta State University. We hope to present the check at our next conference, which will […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. PMF Coil System Various methods are being pursued to boost the growth of algae. One such specific and highly safe, natural approach uses extremely low frequency electro-magnetic fields.  This specific approach uses extremely low frequency magnetic fields on biological systems, resulting in these systems getting exposed to pulsed magnetic field […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. US-based National Wind Solutions (NWND) has bought an undisclosed biodiesel plant in Texas for $3 million (€2.1 million) and has announced its intention to convert it to produce biodiesel from second-generation feedstock. After successfully producing soyabean biodiesel for commercial transportation uses, the plant was mothballed by its original producers because […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Oregon’s 2% biodiesel (B2) requirement has gone into effect as of August 5, making it the third state supporting increased reliance on the cleaner-burning, domestically produced fuel. Oregon’s biodiesel production capacity has reached five million gallons, which triggered the requirement. Minnesota was the first state to enact a B2 requirement. […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Algaeventure Systems has been awarded a purchase order by General Atomics (GA) to provide its algae harvesting, dewatering, and drying technology (AVS HDD). With breakthrough technology and funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), General Atomics is spearheading the efforts of a group of corporate technology developers and […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The state Public Utilities Commission has denied Hawaiian Electric Co.’s request to approve a biodiesel supply contract because of the higher costs it would have passed on to consumers. HECO sought approval for a contract with Seattle-based Imperium Services LLC. It is now seeking new bids from biofuel suppliers. According […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Joanna Schroeder lists five major algae announcements happened this week. 1. W2 Energy, based in Canada, announced that it has completed its Sunfilter commercial scale algae bioreactor. 2. Algaeventure Systems said that it has begun receiving orders for its algae harvesting, dewatering, and drying technology. The company that has placed […]