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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 of millions in coming years. That comes on top of

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. HR Biopetroleum has joined with Shell on a company, Cellana, that is one of about 20 worldwide looking to commercialize algae technology. Shonsey said Cellana has a leg up on the competition because it already has a patented process and research expertise from HR Biopetroleum that has been developed over nearly two decades.

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. When it comes to jet fuel, there's some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the aviation industry is working hard to develop clean, renewable alternatives to petroleum. The bad news? None of them will be coming to a plane near you anytime soon. It's a reality that may push some cash strapped airlines to

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Toronto, Jun 2008 “Biodiesel from algae has the potential to replace petro fuels”, boasts entrepreneur Nick Mashin. Currently, biofuels are largely derived from oil seed crops such as canola, soybean, rapeseed and palm oil. The competition between food and fuel uses has resulted in record breaking commodity prices for these

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Three airlines are joining the newly-formed Algal Biomass Organisation (ABO), a non-profit organisation which aims to promote the development of commercially viable transportation and power-generation fuels, as well as other non-energy applications, from algae biomass. Air New Zealand, Continental Airlines and Virgin

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Joint project to use coal to grow algae for biofuels Algae's clout as a fuel feedstock seems to rise every day. Inventure Chemical and Seambiotic announced this week a joint venture to create biofuels from algae fed by a coal-fired power plant. An open pond for growing algae used at a pilot plant in Israel. (Credit:

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. GreenFuel Technologies, a closely watched algae start-up, has hired a new CEO to place interim CEO Bob Metcalfe. Simon Upfill-Brown will join the company in mid-July from Haltermann Custom Processing, where he was CEO of the chemical manufacturing firm. He was general manager of Haltermann Dow after Dow Chemical bought the

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Closely held Solazyme Inc. is set to announce shortly that its algae-derived biodiesel meets the American Society for Testing and Materials specification for diesel fuel. This means it can go into existing diesel engines without modifications. Solazyme says it is the first diesel derived from algae to meet these standards.

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. A Californian start-up company promising "green crude" fuel from algae has been given $50m (£25.33m) in funding from investors, including Britain's biggest charity, the Wellcome Trust. The year-old start-up, Sapphire Energy, came out of "stealth mode" this week with an announcement that its trials have been so successful

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Thus asks this article from Daily Times, Pakistan With the costs of edible oil spiraling in the international market, experts are keen on finding solutions for the crisis that is engulfing developing countries, including Pakistan. Interestingly, one of the top contenders for alternative sources of edible oil is something

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Inventure Chemical has announced that it has entered into a joint venture with Seambiotic Ltd. (based in Tel Aviv, Israel) to construct a pilot commercial biofuel plant in Israel, using algae created from CO2 emissions as feedstock. The plant will utilize high-yield oil-rich algae strains that Seambiotic has developed and

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. American Algae Growers Corportation (AAGC) is a new company dedicated to the production of eco-friendly oil by "feeding reclaimed emissions from coal and gas burning facilities to an oil producing algae," it says. Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature's way again

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Press release LOS ANGELES - (Business Wire) OriginOil, Inc. , the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, announced today the filing of its fourth patent application. The patent application, “Lysing and Extraction System for

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Durban is helping to develop a new liquid fuel technology which involves harvesting tiny plants and nutrients from local sewage works. Unlike other plant-based biofuels which require vast tracts of fertile farmland or the diversion of food crops into fuel tanks, the Durban experiment involves growing algae in semi-purified

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Seattle-area start-up Bionavitas is one of several companies moving into the algae business. Because it doesn't compete with food and has a high energy density, algae has a lot of potential as a source of biodiesel. But it will take years before algae biodiesel will make a dent in the petroleum diesel market, said

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. While corn and sugar crops are blamed for deforestation, fertilizer runoff, and societal damage, algae promises to possibly provide a better solution. Melbourne, Fla. based PetroAlgae is looking to test a commercial algae biofuel solution next year. The company uses strains of the tiny organism developed by researchers at

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. The city's Station Two power plant near Sebree could become the latest site for research into whether algae could hold some hope for capturing and recycling carbon dioxide emissions. The Henderson Utility Commission earlier this week gave conditional approval to allowing University of Kentucky researchers to set up a small

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Solazyme could be making algal biodiesel for the US military, after a test-drive demonstrated the fuel’s superior cold-weather properties when compared to commercially-available biodiesel. Former Director of Central Intelligence and Under-Secretary of the Navy R. James Woolsey tested the fuel himself by driving to the

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Thought I'd briefly mention the AlgaeWay photobioreactor from AlgaeLink...here's a page that provides detailed info on the photobioreactor, its features, benefits and data Link Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature's way again

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. See a video of the Valcent CEO explaining the method of ethanol production from algae @ this YouTube video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DHjg9l-hQA Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature's way again

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. A 2-minute video explaining algae biodiesel from CNET. See the video @ YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i82CXQX4yq4 Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature's way again

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Isaac Berzin, founder of the popular algae fuel company GreeFuel has been listed in the Time Magazine's Top 100 people in the world for 2008. Wow, that's some recognition for him and for algae fuel. See the article here Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature's way again

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. A nice video that shows the algae photobioreactor infrastructure @ MIT...quite good, some close-up shots as well... See - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnOSnJJSP5c Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature's way again

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Green ponds of algae could someday join golden waves of corn in Iowa's renewable energy industry if a project advanced for likely state funding through the Iowa Power Fund board this week is realized. The Iowa Power Fund board agreed Wednesday to entered funding negotiations for the state's first algae-to-biodiesel project,

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. New Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic may be getting close to achieving its goal of becoming the world’s first company to viably produce large amounts of biofuel from wild algae. Barrie Leay, Aquaflow’s chairman, said his company had successfully achieved “commercial-scale continuous harvesting of tons of wild algae” in a

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