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World Health Energy Holdings, Inc. embarks on Algae Enhancement Technology

Press Release: World Health Energy Holdings, Inc., a public holding company operating in the alternative energy sector, announced today that the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, GNE-India, has signed a letter of intent with Prakash Anthony via a joint venture to install a 250 acre commercial farm on premises located in the Ramanagara District of Karnataka, India [...]

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[ More ] November 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Investments |

Grant for Ohio University

The state Controlling Board has sanctioned grant of $2.5m for the Center for Algal Engineering Research and Commercialization, Ohio University, to convert algae into biofuel. The project hopes to create an academic center at Ohio University focused on algal systems engineering and commercialization. “It will allow us to buy analytical equipment to expand our abilities [...]

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[ More ] November 25th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Energy-Investments |

CEHMM not involved in New Mexico State University’s research

To turn algae into a sustainable source for aviation fuel, New Mexico State University has received a grant of $2.3m. However, the Center of Excellence for Hazardous Materials Management which is a non-profit organisation has said that it’ll not have any part of it. In the words of its director “Although it is a good grant, [...]

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[ More ] November 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Energy-Investments |

Biofuel pilot plant in Florida

The algae biofuel developers Algenol Biofuels Inc., has announced plans of setting up a pilot-sclae biorefinery plant near its laboratory in Lee County, Florida. Algenol has the support of the US Department of Energy, local officials on the Lee County Commission and its strategic partners, including The Dow Chemical Company. Paul Woods, Algenol’s Founder and CEO, said: [...]

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[ More ] November 24th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in algae biodiesel USA, bio diesel-companies |

Everything about Algae in Amsterdam

PRESS RELEASE 22 November 2010 Everything about Algae in Amsterdam Maria Barbosa, WUR: “Especially Algae are ideal candidates as suppliers of sustainable products.” On 1 and 2 December next DLG Benelux organizes the International Algae congress for the fourth time in a row. This time Amsterdam is the place to be. The first presenter and chairman is an expert researcher [...]

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[ More ] November 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Energy-Events |

US Defense’s tryst with algae – Where are things?

Just as a recap for newbies and tattoo-ing the now age-old methods of algae cultivation a bit deeper and darker for regular visitors of the site, the algae research is carried out in two major systems – Open ponds and closed systems (which include traditional bioreactors and photobioreactors). Each of these systems has its set [...]

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[ More ] November 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Investments |

Consortium manages to convert algal oil into quality biodiesel

The National Alliance for Biofuels and Bioproducts is a consortium which has managed to produce algal fuels which specifications set by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Eldorado Biofuel, one of 13 industry members of the NAABB consortium, provided the algal oil while Catilin, Inc. converted the oil to biodiesel using the company’s [...]

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[ More ] November 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Products |

Thawer Ashcroft Crowne & Co. Enters into a Strategic Alliance with Algepower, Inc. to Offer $25M Collateralized Portfolio

Press Release: Thawer Ashcroft Crowne & Co. announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Algepower, Inc. to offer investment collateral to the backend structure of the venture, where it will provide investors with a default-proof, collateral- backed portfolio of funded assets with face values equal to or exceeding the total amount invested [...]

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[ More ] November 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Investments |

Professors Hu and Sommerfield honoured

Arizona State University professors Qiang Hu and Milton Sommerfeld were honored with the Excellence in Research Award at the 2010 Arizona Bioindustry Association’s BioFest, Oct. 27, at the J.W. Marriott Camelback Inn in Scottsdale. Hu and Sommerfeld received the award for their on-going research into ways of converting algae to fuel. The two scientists have [...]

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[ More ] November 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Fuel-Research |

World Algae Congress USA 2010 – December 6-8, San Francisco, CA.

The World Algae Congress USA, which is to be held in San Fransisco on the 6-8th of December, 2010 is a meet which would focus more on the investment side of the algae fuel business. In fact, it claims to be the only investment-focused algae forum where investors, algae end-users, regulators, and algae producers come [...]

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[ More ] November 17th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Energy-Events |

Indian government keen on biofuels

The Biodiesel Association of India has called for immediate steps to be taken to promote usage of bio-fuels for Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) by captive power producers, including the hotel industry using DG sets. It also called for streamlining marketing and distribution of bio-diesel in terms of availability, taxation and statutory regulations and putting in [...]

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[ More ] November 16th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Fuel, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Algae biofuels: WHEN acquires GNE India

World Health Energy Holdings, a public holding company with holdings in the alternate energy sector has announced its ticker symbol as WHEN. This would help propagate its interests in the renewable energy field, it feels. The company works with visionary enterprises in the multi billion dollar renewable energy arena roducing progressive, broad-based solutions for better [...]

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[ More ] November 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Cultivation-Biofuel, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Investments |

Algae Industry and Genetic Modification

Genetic modification has played a decisive role in the biofuel industry so far. Majority of the crop and plant seeds which are cultivated for biofuel production are genetically modified. Statistics indicate that about 93% of the US soybean crop and 80% of the US corn crop used transgenic seeds in 2009. How is the response [...]

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[ More ] November 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Products, Algae-Environment |

Algae fuel rate can be doubled: Research at MSU

Researchers in the Montana State University have found that the algae fuel content can be doubled by the addition of baking soda as a nutrient source. The researchers claim that this method was tried 20 years back by a grad student of the college named Rob Gardner. But MSU Research Professor Emeritus in Microbiology Keith [...]

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[ More ] November 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Fuel, Algae-Nutrients |

International Algae Congress 2010, 1 & 2 December 2010, Amsterdam

The 4th international algae congress will take place in the Planetarium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 1 and 2 December 2010. The Congress sessions will address the following themes: Algae Projects BioFuel Synthetic Genomics/ GMO Algae Markets – Economic potential Markets – Economic potentia Regulations Macro Algae DLG BENELUX is the organizer of the International [...]

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[ More ] November 10th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Events |

EBI’s report to BP casts a glum light on algae fuels

A technoeconomic report submitted by The Energy Biosciences Institute which was funded an amount of $500 million by BP reports the current scenario in the algae fuels industry and its future prospects in a discouraging note. An excerpt from the report: A new report from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) in Berkeley projects that development of [...]

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[ More ] November 10th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Investments |

U.S Navy’s plan of building the great green fleet facilitated by DLA Energy

The U.S navy is consistently progressing on its set target of reducing petroleum use in its commercial fleet by 50 percent by 2015. To showcase its steady steps forward, it recently held an alternate fuels demonstration demonstration showcasing fleets run by 50% algal fuels supplied by Solazyme at Naval Station Norfolk, VA. Navy Secretary Ray [...]

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[ More ] November 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Aviation-Fuel, Algae-Energy-Investments |

Rich algal biodiversity in India’s north east region

A project titled ‘Identification and Screening for Potential Bio-Diesel-Yielding Microalgae from Northeast India’ sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India is underway in the North-eastern region of India. The project aims to collect, isolate and identify microalgae belonging to diverse groups, such as diatoms, green algae and cyanobacteria, for their suitability in production of [...]

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[ More ] November 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Energy-Investments, Algae-Environment, Algae-Strains |

Algae fuels industry – where does the market lie?

Interest in algae fuels accelerated due to high costs of petrol coupled with environmental concerns. But even after the financial crisis has ebbed, the interest in algal fuel remains. With its ability to be utilised in a number of different biofuels applications including algal oil, biodiesel, aviation biofuel, ethanol, butanol and biomethane, the Algae Biofuels [...]

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[ More ] November 8th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Cultivation |

Beckons Industries in a joint venture with a German company

BSE-listed Beckons Industries based in Punjab, India has joined hands with Germany-based Deutsche Gesellschafr Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH to set up an algae production facililty and a centre of excellence in India. The set up will presumably produce algal biomass from with the help of photobioreactors (PBRs). Beckons Industries is already into development of PBR Technology [...]

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[ More ] November 8th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Investments |

India enters algae biofuel research scene with a wonderful consortium.

Scientists from across the country, belonging to a consortium of nine laboratories, are working on an ambitious project called ‘New Millennium India Technology Leadership Initiative’ ( NMITLI), to develop a viable and scalable process of biofuel from microalgae, undertaken by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. The laboratories are Central Salt and [...]

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[ More ] November 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Amazing Algae-Asia Conference – Who Says What?

A remarkable event comprising of many algae enthusiasts all around the world was conducted by the Centre for Management Technology (CMT) in Singapore on the 19th and the 20th of last month. The event com prised of many intellectual delegates keen on updating their knowledge on the latest developments in the algae-energy industry. Several discerning [...]

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[ More ] November 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-CO2-Capture, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Events |

Algae fuels in the league of conventional fuels

Photon8 Inc., a biofuels startup company headquartered at the UTB-TSC ITEC Center, is announcing another breakthrough in its development of the commercially viable production of biofuel from algae. Brad Bartilson, the firm’s president and CEO, said Photon8′s scientists have discovered a way around problems associated with ethanol and biodiesel, the two biofuels currently on the market. Both [...]

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[ More ] November 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Fuel |

Algae recycles GHGs

An innovative clean energy project is being conducted in Australia to commercialise technology that consumes large quantities of greenhouse gases while producing low cost bio-oil and animal feedstock. The environmentally friendly technology uses special strains of algae to consume the greenhouse gases emitted by power stations. The $10 million project is being undertaken by James Cook [...]

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[ More ] November 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel |

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