Algal biofuels were proposed last year as an answer to the stalled Filene’s construction site at Downtown Crossing in Boston. The Eco-Pod, as designed, is a vertical algae bioreactor built with custom prefabricated modules. According to Höweler + Yoon, the proposed pods will would serve as biofuel sources and as micro-incubators for other research and […]

Is harvesting oil from the same algae multiple times by causing minimal damage to the cell th best option? Yes, say a few researchers in the Ames Laboratory. From the Ames laboratory – The key to their process lies with millions of sponge-like nanospheres that were specially engineered by Ames Lab Program Director for Chemical […]

Foreign genes are being spliced into algae and native genes are being tweaked. Different strains of algae are pitted against one another in survival-of-the-fittest contests in an effort to accelerate the evolution of fast-growing, hardy strains. The goal is nothing less than to create superalgae, highly efficient at converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into lipids […]

Ohio-based Phycal LLC has landed a $24 million federal grant for a project that aims to produce biofuel from algae near Wahiawa. The project will use industrial carbon dioxide emissions to cultivate microalgae for biofuel that can be blended with other fuels. The $65 million pilot project will use shallow ponds and processing facilities on […]

Algenol Inc.’s new research center under construction off Alico Road is expected to open in just over a month. Employees began packing materials from the company’s existing research facility in Baltimore this past week in anticipation of opening the new center on Sept. 1, chief executive officer Paul Woods said. “There are parts of the […]

Swedish energy group Vattenfall said it had launched a major pilot project Thursday using algae to absorb greenhouse gas emissions from a coal-fired power plant in eastern Germany. The two-million-euro (2.6-million-dollar) trial run, which will continue until October 2011, in the depressed Lausitz mining region is one of several experimental attempts in the sector using […]

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), acting in partnership with the Energy Technology Research Group of the Southampton University, United Kingdom (UK), has commenced research into the use of modern technologies to develop bio-fuel in Ghana. Topics they treated included “second generation bio-fuels based on biomass pyrolysis technology”, “computational modelling of biomass fast […]

In Arizona, the 2010 Algae Biomass Summit, the official conference of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) and the algae industry’s premier global conference, released the event’s newly-expanded agenda featuring more than 70 speakers and seven new sessions. The 4th annual event will be held September 28-30 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, Arizona. […]

Press Release Algae Industry Magazine (A.I.M.) has selected their Science and Industry Advisory Board. This panel of top industry professionals has been assembled to analyze and advise A.I.M. publishers regarding technology and controversial issues in the algae biofuels and co-products industry. “In this rapidly developing industry it is extremely beneficial to have the diverse talents […]

Nofima Ingrediens (http://www.nofima.no/en), a business oriented research group working in research and development for the aquaculture, fisheries and food industry in Norway seeks a letter of intent from potential industries to contribute to the project proposal to the Norwegian Research Council on the use of alternatives to fish oil lipid sources for fish feeds. They […]

Solazyme, Inc. is helping the U.S. military move  closer to powering its planes, ships, tanks and trucks on renewable fuel and has delivered of 1,500 gallons of 100% algae-based jet fuel for the U.S. Navy’s testing and certification program. The U.S. Navy has previously announced the objective to operate at least 50% of its fleet […]

According to Cynthia Warner, speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in 2009, algae is 40 times more efficient at photosynthesis than any other plant, which makes it the king of bio-fuels. Last year, 4% of the US transportation fuel supply came from corn based ethanol. It took 23 million acres to achieve that. Warner says […]

U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman said a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report suggests that American taxpayers might be over-subsidizing corn-based biofuels, even while failing to provide any tax credit for algae-based fuels, which hold great promise for the nation’s environment and energy security, and for Southern New Mexico’s economy. Current law provides a 45-cents-per-gallon credit […]

ExxonMobil unveiled the opening of a greenhouse in which to take to the next level the research and testing of algae as the basis for a fuel. Exxon, like all major oil producers, has been looking into potential fuels to supplement or even replace traditional hydrocarbon-based fuels. And while its investment is small in the […]

A Royal Netherlands Air Force Apache (AH-64D) helicopter recently conducted a successful flight test at Gilzen-Rijen Air Base, in the Netherlands, during which one of the helicopter’s two engines was powered by an alternative biofuel. The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) provided the Royal Air Force with support during the preparations for and conducting of the […]

The Aquatic Species Program was launched in 1978 by president Jimmy Carter to explore the potential of algae as an energy source. About $25 million was put into the program until it was shelved by the Clinton administration in 1996.  They never found the ‘lipid trigger’ — the trick to making the organisms produce lipids […]

Press Release What if… all American algaepreneurs, producers, researchers, technologies, harvesting, extraction and equipment manufacturers and engineering companies who agree that algae could be one solution to help get the US off of foreign oil joined together in an open collaborative environment and developed preliminary designs for a 100 acre commercial-scale algae production system, identifying […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Yarmouth, ME – Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc. of Yarmouth, Maine, USA, today announced that it is collaborating with Lone Star Biotechnology Institute, part of the Lone Star Community College in Texas, on the college’s algae-to-biofuel research program. Fluid Imaging is providing a FlowCAM® imaging particle analysis instrument to the institute’s algae research […]

Press Release: Learn about the Algae Production Industry and Review Financial Models Algae is one solution to help  the US get off of foreign oil, create jobs and reduce CO2 emissions. The National Algae Association, a 501(c)6, invites US Private Equity, Mezzanine and Senior Debt Lenders to attend an educational algae production and market workshop.  Attendees will  learn and discuss CAPEX […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Arizona State University a $6 million grant as part of a program focused on algae-based biofuels. The program supports the development of a clean, sustainable transportation sector – a goal of DOE’s continued effort to spur the creation of a domestic bio-industry while creating jobs. This round […]