Lin is a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and a professor of chemistry at Iowa State University. He has been teaching and conducting research in Ames since the fall of 1999. Lin was named ISU’s next John D. Corbett Professor in Chemistry, an endowed professorship awarded for a [...]

Enexions is an online networking hub for green and sustainability. It has a cool feature where we can start a diary on topics related to sustainability.
While in some ways it is like maintaining a blog, the advantages with having diaries for your “green” topics at Enexions are:
1. You can make very short notes and posts, [...]

“Why algae fuel is going to take so long? As promising as the technology is, it hasn’t proved that it can produce fuels in sufficient quantities or at a low enough cost to make a dent in U.S. liquid-fuel consumption.”
The author Michel totty has given us the clear picture of algae fuel’s current status in [...]

Renewed World Energies, Inc. is launching the world’s first commercially-viable, closed system, automated microalgae production facility. RWE’s efforts are pioneering a new era of mass adoption of bio-fuel. Over the past six years, Tim Tompkins and Richard Armstrong, RWE’s principals, have developed a scalable closed system bioreactor that not only grows algae but will make [...]

Proposals to construct a plant for the development of sustainable fuel have been welcomed by an international engineering firm.
Mott MacDonald said that British Airways’ plans to set up a green fuel plant and then purchase the product for use on its fleet is a ’step in the right direction’.
Laurence Price, director of aviation strategy, explained [...]

The algae oil offers the excited researchers a third option as a biodiesel feedstock, after soybean oil and animal fats.
In addition, scientists are working on a process that will take a byproduct of algae after the oil is extracted and convert it into a high-protein human food additive!
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The new EU Phase III Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for green jet fuel seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by planes operating in member states. The regulations will likely spur a large market for jet fuel made from algae.
The regulations will come into effect in 2013. Airlines that land in EU member states will be [...]

In a face-off between academia and industry, algae biofuel companies have made a joint statement decrying recent research that highlights algae’s drawbacks.
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The research, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, found that algae production can be energy intensive and can end up emitting more greenhouse gases than it sequesters.
In response, the Algal Biomass Assocation, [...]

Clean Energy and Power, Inc.announced today that Dennis Shen former Chief Operating officer of Biocentric Energy Holdings Inc., and lead developer of the Algae Bioreactor has joined Clean Energy and Power as President.
“With Dennis on board we now have a proven ‘Green’ technology visionary whose focus has been in many areas of the clean energy [...]

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Massachusetts-based renewable energy company Bodega Algae and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, have received a six-month, $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and test a prototype for growing high concentrations of algae for use as biofuel. The [...]