A graduate student in animal science at the University of California, Davis, Roque is experimenting with a cow named “ginger” and monitors everything from the animals’ food rations to the somatic cells in their milk — indicators of inflammation or stress.  The research is into reducing methane emissions from livestock by supplementing their diets with a […]

Researchers working on the potential production and use of algae as both a feed source and a means of reducing livestock methane emissions have filed a patent on a species of algae found to have powerful methane-reducing properties. The patent for the use of a species of red macro algae to reduce methane emissions in […]

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Algae International Group, Inc., a development stage renewable energy company in US, announced that it has signed a $5,000,000 reserve equity financing facility with AGS Capital Group, LLC, a US based specialist investor group, in order to enable growth with financing for its algae cultivation and development project in the State of California. The company is seeking […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. SCOTTISH Enterprise (SE) has announced that leading international energy and environmental consultancy AEA has been awarded the foresighting and economic modelling work for SE’s recently integrated ITI Energy Seaweed Anaerobic Digestion (SAD) programme, to aid and underpin the commercialisation of the technology being developed.  Seaweed (or marine algae) remains an […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. That started JCU nutritionist Dr Tony Parker and marine scientist Professor Rocky de Nys thinking about the potential of seaweed as a low-methane fodder source—in particular the fast-growing “green tide” of algae that can be used to soak up excess nutrient in treatment of water used by aquaculture. Some of […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The marine engineer expert Mark Capron of PODenergy has a related but different scheme. His plan is to establish giant “forests” of kelp seaweed at the surface of the ocean. These would be harvested and placed into plastic “stomachs” – essentially large plastic bags – suspended in the sea. Natural […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. A recent French study explores ways to maximise the potential of using microalgae to produce biofuels. This includes issues surrounding management of the algal biomass waste, the reuse of the nitrogen and phosphorus inputs as fertilisers in cultivated production and recovery of methane as an additional source of energy from […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. OriginOil announced that it has developed a new technology for harvesting oil that is simpler than current systems and promises to drive down costs in the fledgling algae-to-oil market. “Our process completely redefines the harvesting,” said Riggs Eckelberry, chief executive of OriginOil. “It is a dramatic difference in energy requirements. […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. One interesting possibility for producing fuel from algae is the direct pyrolysis of microalgae. Wu et al. (1999) report the direct pyrolysis of marine nanoplankton as a source of methane and oils with Emiliania huxleyi, a widely distributed coccolithophorid species in world oceans with the authors suggesting this as one […]