DOE’s “National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap” was released in final form yesterday after a year of public comment and revisions on a draft. The report summarize the state of technology today and point to directions for future work, dives into great detail on the biology of various kinds of algae, means of cultivating and harvesting […]

Part of the Cambridge team – which includes plant scientists, biochemists, mathematicians, and chemical engineers – is developing a biophotovoltaic device to produce green electricity by tapping into the ability of algae to harness solar energy. This is the first time that whole cells of algae have been used to power an electrical device. Although […]

Researchers at Arizona State University have found a way to harvest oil from cyanobacteria, the photosynthesizing blue-green algae. After being reprogrammed, the cyanobacteria act like miniature biofuel factories, continuously leaking fatty acid oil through their cell walls. The oil separates from the bacteria and becomes a floating, whitish residue. Researchers induced the microbes to focus […]

Ineos Bio, part of the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has this month taken a step closer to making this concept a reality by securing £7.3m ($10.9m) of grants towards its development of Europe’s first waste to bioethanol plant. “You can’t replace the world’s transport fuels with 100 per cent biofuels but you can make a […]

The Canadian government has awarded approximately C$5million to a project to produce fuels on a large scale from algae grown in Nova Scotia. The money comes through the National Bioproducts Programme, with additional resources of around C$1.2million being provided by both monetary and in-kind contributions from industrial and organisational partners. Plans have already been drawn […]

A research and development facility for algae biofuels will soon be built on The University of Toledo Scott Park Campus for Energy and Innovation. The pilot-scale facility is part of a research project recently awarded a nearly $3 million grant through the Ohio Third Frontier Wright Projects Program that links research capabilities of Ohio’s colleges, […]

The recent news release about the 30 trans formative technologies in 2010 made me to dig up the latest about the algae fuel companies listed: Solazyme, Algenol, OriginOil, Sapphire energy and Petroalgae. Here is the collection of latest press releases by the companies. Solazyme Solazyme is recently listed in the 30 most transformative technologies in […]

In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the winners of its “30 Most Transformative Technologies of 2010″ poll. The publication’s readers submitted more than 48,000 votes from 3,500 ballots during the three-week voting process. The readers chose between transformative bioenergy technologies at more than 250 companies, universities and national laboratories, including 100 organizations that received write-in votes. […]

EASEL Biotechnologies this week won a 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for Recycled Fuel Breakthroughs from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The brains behind the company belong to co-founder James C. Liao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UCLA. In his research at the university, Liao used genetically modified E. coli bacteria […]

Press Release: It’s one solution to help the US reduce its dependence on foreign oil and create new green jobs. The algae industry is quickly moving technologies out of the lab and into commercial-scale algae production.  Many new algae production plants are scaling-up to produce algae oil and biomass for co-products.  Algae proven technologies are being benchmarked for commercial […]

Federal scientists and their private-sector partners said a $5-million National Research Council project in Nova Scotia that will test the creation of biofuels from the unicellular organism could help ignite a provincial energy industry. “It’s really cool,” Gary Goodyear, the federal minister of science and technology, said during the funding announcement. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/06/04/algae-biofuel.html#ixzz0rD69Tbmp

A Purdue University researcher will lead a portion of a federally funded effort based at Iowa State University aimed at creating genetically engineered algae for environmentally friendly biodiesel production. Currently, hydrocarbon fuels such as diesel and gasoline require complex chemical processing to be manufactured and are made primarily from non-renewable fossil fuels, which are being […]

BioFuels LLC plans to open a pilot biofuel production facility, the company announced Thursday. The Cranston-based company said the facility would capture emissions from a neighboring power plant and use them to accelerate the growth of algae. The plant will extract vegetable oil from the algae to produce biodiesel fuel. The facility will then send […]

Toyota Motor Corp.’s research and development unit, Hitachi Ltd. and more than 40 other Japanese companies and institutions have joined a national study into algae’s potential for producing biofuel and chemicals. Autoparts maker Denso Corp., refiners Nippon Oil Corp. and Idemitsu Kosan Co. and soy sauce maker Kikkoman Corp. will also join the study led […]

Here is an interesting summary of top companies which are working on algae fuels by Anya Kamenetz, a staff writer for Fast Company magazine: Algae Fuel’s Pioneers. This article summarizes the efforts of Algenol, Sapphire, Solazyme and Synthetic Genomics.

Monday June 7th was the ribbon cutting for one of the first integrated algae – crude oil systems. CEHMM and SRS Energy have partnered to develop one of the first integrated algae oil pilot production facility. CEHMM, a 501(C)(3) owns and operates an outdoor raceway pond system for cultivating lipid rich marine microalgae. SRS Energy […]

The last ten days have been hectic for those in the genetic engineering field. Synthetic life has been created, scream the headlines, and well, it is no hoax, at least not entirely. The man at the center of it all, Craig Venter, is no stranger to those in the field of biotech, having been associated […]

Press release Soley Biotechnology Institute started to provide some bacteria mixtures for pond agriculture. Mixture 1: FOR REMOVING H2S FROM PONDS Oxidizing H2S by Bacteria Paracoccus pantotrophus 3 Billion cfu/ml Mixture 2: FOR INHIBITING HARMFUL BACTERIAL GROWTH WASTE DEGREDATION FOR HEALTHY YOUNG SHRIMP CULTURES Bacillus subtilis Bacillus licheniformis Bacillus pumilus 20 Billion cfu/ml Mixture 3: […]

Press release Learn about growing, harvesting and extraction Co-Sponsored by National Algae Association and BARD HOLDING June 17, 2010 BARD Holding 1 Ben Fairless Drive, Fairless Hills, PA 19030 National Algae Association and BARD Holdings are pleased to announce that Bucks County Commissioner and Republican candidate for Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley, Will Thurmond of […]

Florida-based BioMarine Fuels Inc. has recently filed a patent application on its new SolarMagnatron algae biomass production system. According to CEO and inventor, John D. Ericsson, “we believe this unique commercial technology break-though will grow energy-rich biomass at substantially elevated reproduction rates using 24/7/365 day natural and/or artificial sunlight plus electromagnetic energy which will turbo […]

Beckons Industries Ltd (BIL) has commenced operations for taking the development of Algae Photobioreactor Technology further at sunny Goa which is very conducive for the growth of Algae due to minimum variation of temperature near the ocean. This initiative will help in faster commercialization of Algae Photobioreactor Technology and revenues from Algae oil, which is […]

Algae: From Raceway to Runway/Opportunities for Renewable Energy and Economic Development- A briefing on work being done at the Pecos Algae Research and Development Facility, a pilot scale site on the Texas AgriLife Research Station at Pecos. WHERE: The Algae Research and Development Facility is eight miles west of Pecos at 947 West I-20. To […]

Harry Teague , a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has sponsored bills promoting green and renewable energy, including the Algae-based Renewable Fuel Promotion Act. Here is an interesting article written by him on algae fuels: Time to turn to algae-based fuel