The Mid-South Chapter of the National Algae Association are holding another seminar. This time the talk will be “Algae: Mining Wastewater for Nutrients, Fuel, and Fertilizer” at the Holiday Inn Research Center in Huntsville, Alabama on March 26, 2010.
The chapter’s president, Tamra Fakhoorian said to talk about this information-packed workshop [...]

In Attleboro in November, Comey started growing a tray full of cyclotella cryptica, a strain of algae native to Martha’s Vineyard.
So far, the group’s shoestring budget has lacked the money for the microscope and centrifuge Comey needs to quantify the growing results.
But a winter’s worth of experiments has yielded promising [...]

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 [...]

Devarenne and his colleagues have done some of the groundwork in better understanding B. braunii and sequencing its genome.
They are working the Berkeley strain of the B race of B. braunii, so named because it was first isolated at the University of California at Berkeley. The team has determined the genome size and an estimate [...]

A Kiwi startup company that turns algae into bio-fuel will get North American funding to help in a trial project to use algae to capture carbon dioxide from manufacturing exhaust stacks.
Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation has an agreement to work with UOP, formerly Universal Oil Products, which specialises in technology to refine fuels and is part of [...]

Biology can lead to changes in how the planet is powered, Synthetic Genomics CEO, Dr. J. Craig Ventor, told CNBC.
Ventor and his company have been collecting genomes around the world in search of a next-generation energy source, most notably algae-converted energy. Venter estimates a 10-year timeframe before algae conversion can be produced on a scale [...]

A company based in Clear Lake is turning waste and algae into renewable fuels.
Bud Jermeland, 51, president of Energae LP, said the primary focuses of his company are waste-based ethanol and the use of algae in the making of ethanol for the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical markets.
Energae is producing algae in South Carolina that will be [...]

The Iranian algae biofuel project is carried out by researchers at Teheran’s Shiraz University who succeeded in producing green fuel from the algae Chlamydomonas. The microalgae were isolated during a screening program from soil and water samples collected from paddy-fields of Fars province and the Maharlu Salt Lake, and the researchers registered their findings at [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]