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You are at: Oilgae Blog. Mujizat Kawaroe, a scientist from the Bogor Institute of Technology, or IPB, has studied cultivable microalgae under different climactic conditions for two years. However, scarce funding has slowed her research, which is currently being carried out at the IPB’s Surfactant & Bioenergy and Research Center. “Previously we only studied six [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. College of William & Mary — William & Mary and Virginia Institute of Marine Science researchers are leading a collaboration to develop transportation fuels from algae, with an emphasis on production of automotive and aviation fuels. Also, Applied Science Department researchers have developed materials and methods for production of solid-oxide [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Hatcher started exploring biofuel three decades ago. His work was interrupted in the early 1990s when the DOE stopped funding research in alternative fuel. In today’s green-friendly climate, Hatcher thinks the time for this technology has finally come. The Spring Grove pilot project is capable of generating 3,000 gallons of [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. United Environment & Energy, an engineering company in Horseheads, New York, believes that it has the answer as to how to convert algae oil to biodiesel efficiently. By using a “mixed metal oxide” catalyst (a form of certain metals resistant to corrosion but reactive), chemical engineer Ben Wen and his [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. DTE Energy and University of Michigan clean energy business competition designed to move new energy technology from the laboratory to the marketplace. A plan to use algae to simultaneously treat wastewater and produce the raw materials for biofuels won the inaugural Clean Energy Prize on Friday. The competition was established [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Venice’s seaport plans to become self-sufficient in its energy needs by building a power plant fueled by algae, in what would be the first facility of its kind in Italy, the port authority said. The plant will be operative in two years and produce 40 megawatts of electricity, Venice’s port [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Advanced biofuels companies will report on progress toward bringing cellulosic and other next-generations biofuels – such as algae, biobutanol, and biohydogen – to the marketplace at the 2009 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, to be held July 19-22, 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. American boutique automaker Panoz Auto Development wants to return to the top tier of the American Le Mans Series in car powered by algal biofuel. Founder Don Panoz said the company is “investigating concepts” that could it return to the premier LMP1 prototype category Panoz didn’t offer many details when [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. UCLA brought politicians, business leaders and researchers to campus for a March 6 conference exploring how they will meet aggressive requirements to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The California Air Resources Board recently developed a scoping plan for implementing Assembly Bill 32, which requires steep reductions in carbon emissions by 2020. [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Murray, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Texas at San Antonio, thinks the city is perfectly poised to become a research and production hotbed for literally one of the greenest fuels around, mined from the slippery marine life that thrives in the shallow ponds and warm, sunny [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. A chief NASA scientist argues that the future is green … and salty. He says “Algae and bacteria are the two most important biofuel technologies of the twenty-first century. As a replacement for oil, algae is extremely practical, utilizes mostly cheap and abundant resources like saltwater and wasteland, and has [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. The CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship is working with a number of partners, both national and international, to develop a strong algal biofuel research program. “The Flagship’s research has made significant progress in a short time and our extensive biofuels program will continue to develop solutions that result in a secure [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press release BEHL — BioCentric Energy Holdings, Inc. — BioCentric Energy Algae to Unveil the Provisional Patent Pending “Algae Pro Closed Loop Photobioreactor Solution” at Algae World 2009 — Rotterdam in April HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA – BioCentric Energy Algae agreed to speak at the ALGAE WORLD 2009 in Rotterdam this [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Scottish Bioenergy Cooperative Ventures has been awarded the £40,000 ($57,000) Climate Change Innovation Prize from Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Shell Springboard program. Based in St. Cyrus, Scotland, the company builds, sells and operates photobioreactors for capturing carbon dioxide emissions to grow algae feedstock for biodiesel production. Scottish Bioenergy recently completed [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. California Energy Commission Awards Grant for Proposal That Would Turn Biomass Blooms in the Salton Sea Into Methane, Hydrogen, and Synthetic Gasses QuantumSphere, Inc., a leading developer of advanced catalyst materials, high-performance electrode systems, and related process chemistries for portable power and clean-tech applications, today announced that it was awarded [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. A technology developed to increase commercially viable and scaleable algae yields was lauched recently by Bionavitas, Inc. The process, Light Immersion Technology™, involves immersing the light source, natural or artifical, in the algae culture which, says the company, produces an order of magnitude more algae biomass than existing growth methods. [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Hemmers is the new director of the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies at UNLV. The research projects on his resume received more than $6 million in funding. He’s spent time working on high-energy X-ray spectroscopy projects at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. And while Hemmers thinks many technologies will [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. The omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2009 currently has $28 million for energy and water projects in New Mexico, according to a press release from U.S. Sen. Tom Udall. “This appropriations bill contains vital funding for the people of New Mexico, from helping us fully expand our capacity for [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. QuantumSphere, Inc., a leading developer of advanced catalyst materials, high-performance electrode systems, and related process chemistries for portable power and clean-tech applications, today announced that it was awarded a research grant from the California Energy Commission to develop a process using nanocatalysts to convert biomass into biofuels. The grant was [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Bionavitas, a Seattle-area energy startup, just announced that it has solved a major problem in the algae-to-energy business: self-shading. The company says this has the potential to rocket ahead algae as a carbon-neutral fuel source. The so-called “light immersion technology” is said to be cost-efficient, as well as a “passive, [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. After years in the making, Josh Tickell’s documentary “Fuel” is on the big screen in select locations in southern California and Washington state, with debuts to follow in other states. The feature-length documentary, which had the working title “Fields of Fuel,” is now playing in Yakima, Wash.; Los Angeles; and [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Four young companies that are hiring like crazy are Contain Energy, Phycal, SolarWinds and BreakingPoint. The four private players continue to hire even as the recession digs deeper into the overall economy. Phycal, an energy startup founded by Kevin Berner, has not slowed its fast-paced hiring in recent months. Berner [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. News Release The National Algae Association’s Mid-South Chapter is hosting the Atlanta Algae Workshop, entitled “Algae, Our New Biofuel,” at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, February 27th: The event will kick off with a presentation by Barry Cohen, Director of the National Algae Association. [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. The National Algae Association’s Mid-South Chapter is hosting the Atlanta Algae Workshop, entitled “Algae, Our New Biofuel,” at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, February 27th. The event will kick off with a presentation by Barry Cohen, Director of the National Algae Association. Will Thurmond, [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Scientists know that phytoplankton – microscopic algae that serve as the base of the ocean’s food chain – often appear in thin, but immensely dense, sheets in the ocean that can extend for more than a mile. These plant-rich regions serve as feeding hotspots for fish and other organisms – [...]
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