Congress allowed a crucial $1.00/gal tax credit to expire, resulting in U.S. biodiesel production capacity dipping to around 15%.
Fortunately for biodiesel producers, the gravitational pull between politicians and bailing out unprofitable industries is among the strongest forces in the universe.
According to the Department of Energy, in early March, the wholesale [...]

South Australian resource company Beach Energy and a US business General Atomics are doing a joint study on producing biofuels in the Cooper Basin.
They are examining whether General Atomics’ technology can be used to farm algae, while reducing carbon dioxide output from Beach Energy’s gas and oil fields.
Reg Nelson from Beach Energy says oil production [...]

Massachusetts-based Bodega Algae LLC and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, have received a six-month, $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and test a prototype for growing high concentrations of algae for biofuel. The grant is titled Light Delivery Enhancement of Photobioreactors and will [...]

Catilin Inc. announced a three-year, $5.3 million project as part of a $44 million U.S. DOE award made to Catilin’s consortium, National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts. Catilin and its partner, Iowa State University-Center for Catalysis, will provide key extraction, sequestration and conversion technologies. Catilin and ISU-CCAT will use mesoporous nanoparticles to selectively extract [...]

Pate, who is a principal member of technical staff at Sandia, has been in Washington, D.C., since November 2009, serving as a technical consultant to the emerging algae biofuels program within the Biomass Office of the Department of Energy’s Office of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (EERE).
Pate was part of the DOE-sponsored team that drafted [...]

Sachtleben, a unit of Rockwood Holdings Inc. and the leading producer of specialty titanium dioxide and functional additives has developed catalytically active particles that stand to revolutionize the production of biofuels using sustainable and environmentally friendly means.
Sacthleben is working with Augsburg College and biodiesel producer Ever Cat Fuels LLC, which is currently designing the first [...]

St. Louis-based conglomerate Enterprise Rent-A-Car is going green. Algae green, to be specific.
The company is converting its entire fleet of airport shuttle buses — more than 600 vehicles — to biofuel. For now soybeans will provide the power but a report from yesterday’s St. Louis Business Journal says algae — the tiny blue-green plants that [...]

Skyonic Corporation, an Austin-based carbon-capture technology company, announced it has been selected to receive $3 million in stimulus funding under the competitive “Carbon Capture and Sequestration from Industrial Sources and Innovative Concepts for Beneficial CO2 Use” grant administered by the Department of Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL).This grant, along with private investment, [...]

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The EPA in its Renewable Fuels Standard found that biofuels could have a significant impact on efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions when compared with gasoline or diesel fuel. The finding now classifies algae-based biodiesel and renewable diesel as an “advanced biofuel” under U.S. federal guidelines. The EPA announcement is in [...]

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Climate change mitigation-related stories were among the top ten most read science stories from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2009.
Los Alamos National Laboratory team-up with Solix Biofuels Inc. to use the laboratory’s sound wave technology in optimizing production of algae-based fuel ranked as the seventh leading story for 2009.
Acoustic focusing [...]