Aurora Algae – Escalating Production
With its already erected six one-acre ponds in Northwest Australia, Aurora Algae is opening another five-acre modular pond in or around July, this year. The six ponds are producing 15 tons of dry, ash-free biomass per month. Aurora’s CEO Greg Baffalis suggests that starving the algae makes the algae accumulate more lipids than the non-starving mode. He adds that they will always produce biofuel, omega-3 and biomass and will be able to sell their products profitably.
Aurora grows algae in open ponds, a method that is cheaper than photobioreactors and fermentation. Bafalis claims that the pesticides they have developed keeps invading species out of their cultivation systems and the climate of Northwest Australia helps as well. The company uses selectively bred algae for its production process.
