You are at: Oilgae Blog. The cow’s manure from the Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport is used to produce power through the digester at the south side of the barns and some of the liquid manure has also been sent over to a mini greenhouse for growing algae. A company called algaepower is growing algae […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Massachusetts-based Waltham Technologies thinks it has the potential to break into the California wine industry, cleaning its waste water and producing biodiesel with a special breed of blue-green algae. The company thinks it could make enough biodiesel for a brewery or winery to run its process as well as some […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Last month, the Reynolds Town Council approved a plan by Indianapolis-based algaewheel Inc. to build a special system using algae to process the town’s wastewater. After passing through a series of filters, wastewater will flow through the wheels. The algae, simple organisms that use photosynthesis to turn sunlight into energy, […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Here is yet another research effort to derive energy from waste. Josh Harkinson lists six innovative ideas to convert waste into electricity. It includes Poop-Eating Bacteria, Turd Cell Smashers, Geological Toilets, Feces Ponds, Gassifiers and Poop Pyrotechnics.He has also mentioned “feces pond” as cheaper green option. He also mentioned that […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Google provided grants for clean energy form waste projects at NASA Ames, and a scientist named Jonathan Trent is using a part of the grant for under-the-radar algae project. According to Cleantech Group, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have invested $250,000 in Trent’s research to develop an algae-based […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Loy Yang Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with MBD Energy, a private Melbourne company whose algae-based technology will allow the brown-coal power station to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide. The technology provides an alternative to carbon capture and sequestration for all coal-fired power stations in Australia, and […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota partnered with the Metropolitan Council for the project, using concentrated liquid waste, separated from the solids to grow several species of algae that can thrive in wastewater. The project started in 2006 on a much smaller scale, using wastewater in labs, […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. NASA scientists have proposed an ingenious and remarkably resourceful process to produce “clean energy” biofuels, while it cleans waste water, removes carbon dioxide from the air, retains important nutrients, and does not compete with agriculture for land or freshwater. This is an excellent approach wherein clean energy is produced in […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. An excellent document on using dairy waste water as a effort to produce energy from waste- “LIPID PRODUCTIVITY OF ALGAE GROWN ON DAIRY WASTEWATER AS A POSSIBLE FEEDSTOCK FOR BIODIESEL” byCalifornia Polytechnic University.By the way, have you subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?; How about joining the Oilgae mailing list?; and […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Scotland’s oldest whisky distillery is taking part in a ground-breaking project to capture its carbon dioxide emissions and turn it into a biofuel using oil-producing algae. The Glenturret distillery in Crieff, Perthshire, is one of Scotland’s knee pain top tourist attractions – producing whisky since 1775. It is now the […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Kayaletu Makasi lives on a pretty little smallholding on the road to Chintsa, Zambia. He has 17 cows, three pigs and a gaggle of chickens. He feeds their manure (about 20 litres a week) into a small digester and in return he gets an unlimited supply of free fuel, highly […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Waltham Technologies, Inc. is focusing on developing and commercializing innovative methods to clean water.Waltham Technologies System safely bioengineers algae so the organism’s required production of Vitamin B12 is chained to the production of new genes. These introduced genes enable the organisms to rapidly digest contaminates in the water and produce […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Aisenbrey has worked for CTW Energy, a small alternative energy company with offices in Bozeman and Deer Lodge, an combined effort to de4rive energy from algae. The company is developing a system that will use algae to cleanse wastewater, said Joseph Menicucci Jr., the owner of CTW and an adjunct […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Dutch biotechnology firm Ingrepro plans to harness waste from sewers, farms and industry to produce biofuel and algae, which it hopes will eventually power airplanes, its chief executive said on Thursday. This is an indeed an excellent effort to produce energy from waste. Ingrepro plans four initial projects in the […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Although only about 200 to 300 has been produced at American process technology company UOP LLC’s Chicago laboratory, Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation’s algae fuel now has an important 12 months ahead, said Aquaflow director Nick Gerritsen. This is an good approach to harness energy from waste. This year the firm will […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Invercargill engineering firm BL Rayners Ltd and Christchurch recycling company Solvent Rescue Ltd have collaborated under the name Solray to develop the machine, which has taken them 18 years to perfect. Solvent Rescue owner Chris Bathurst said the MKII had been operating for the past four months after performing to […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. OK, folks, this is a relatively old news story (May 20080, but something I picked up only today and thought it was mighty interesting for one key reason: American government thinks its immediate future lies in the Canadian Tar Sands @ Alberta, and everyone else thinks extracting oil from these […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Has a sewage farm just outside the New Zealand city of Blenheim provided a solution to the world’s energy shortages? Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, a local start-up, has patented a process to extract biofuel from sewage, and last year the country’s minister for energy, David Parker, roadtested a car run on […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The Southland Times | Wednesday, 24 September 2008 Invercargill-designed machinery that turns sewage-pond algae into crude oil and leaves the water clean enough for reuse has generated strong interest from southern councils. Invercargill engineering firm B L Rayners Ltd and Christchurch company Solvent Rescue Ltd are working together to develop […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Found something interesting in this article which gives the latest updates on PetroAlgae in Melbourne, Australia “The key to making it financially feasible is for algae farms to get paid two ways, John Benneman said. First, farms should get paid for getting rid of unwanted products that algae will eat, […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Holland (Michigan) may be in line for a $7 million state-funded pilot project to combine wastewater and carbon dioxide to grow algae for biofuel and animal feed. Lawmakers are expected this month to complete work on grants for targeted industries worth hundreds […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Algae + Garbage = Clean BiofuelThat’s the plan in Virginia, where $1.5 million in research grants for clean energy are being dolled out by the state. About a third of that money will go to a project seeking to grow algae in […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Dairy Biorefinery to Include Biodiesel, Later AlgaeJun 2007 report XL Dairy Group Inc. is currently expanding its 2,500-head dairy operation to 7,500 dairy cattle in Vicksburg, Ariz., the first step in developing its integrated biorefinery complex. Biomethane from anaerobic digestion will produce […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Biofuel Boom Puts Pressure on Water – Algae the Solution? The biofuels boom will mean a much tougher battle to find enough water and will push the next generation of ethanol and biodiesel plants to be much more efficient, speakers at the […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Land of algae, milk and biofuel! Ed Taylor, Tribune, May 13, 2007 Milk and biofuel is an odd combination, but a Phoenix, Arizona-based company is planning to produce both. When fully built, the ag-industrial complex planned by the XL Dairy Group will […]