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Algae fuel rate can be doubled: Research at MSU

Researchers in the Montana State University have found that the algae fuel content can be doubled by the addition of baking soda as a nutrient source. The researchers claim that this method was tried 20 years back by a grad student of the college named Rob Gardner. But MSU Research Professor Emeritus in Microbiology Keith [...]

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[ More ] November 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Fuel, Algae-Nutrients |

International Algae Congress 2010, 1 & 2 December 2010, Amsterdam

The 4th international algae congress will take place in the Planetarium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 1 and 2 December 2010. The Congress sessions will address the following themes: Algae Projects BioFuel Synthetic Genomics/ GMO Algae Markets – Economic potential Markets – Economic potentia Regulations Macro Algae DLG BENELUX is the organizer of the International [...]

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[ More ] November 10th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Events |

EBI’s report to BP casts a glum light on algae fuels

A technoeconomic report submitted by The Energy Biosciences Institute which was funded an amount of $500 million by BP reports the current scenario in the algae fuels industry and its future prospects in a discouraging note. An excerpt from the report: A new report from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) in Berkeley projects that development of [...]

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[ More ] November 10th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Investments |

U.S Navy’s plan of building the great green fleet facilitated by DLA Energy

The U.S navy is consistently progressing on its set target of reducing petroleum use in its commercial fleet by 50 percent by 2015. To showcase its steady steps forward, it recently held an alternate fuels demonstration demonstration showcasing fleets run by 50% algal fuels supplied by Solazyme at Naval Station Norfolk, VA. Navy Secretary Ray [...]

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[ More ] November 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Aviation-Fuel, Algae-Energy-Investments |

Rich algal biodiversity in India’s north east region

A project titled ‘Identification and Screening for Potential Bio-Diesel-Yielding Microalgae from Northeast India’ sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India is underway in the North-eastern region of India. The project aims to collect, isolate and identify microalgae belonging to diverse groups, such as diatoms, green algae and cyanobacteria, for their suitability in production of [...]

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[ More ] November 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Energy-Investments, Algae-Environment, Algae-Strains |

Algae fuels industry – where does the market lie?

Interest in algae fuels accelerated due to high costs of petrol coupled with environmental concerns. But even after the financial crisis has ebbed, the interest in algal fuel remains. With its ability to be utilised in a number of different biofuels applications including algal oil, biodiesel, aviation biofuel, ethanol, butanol and biomethane, the Algae Biofuels [...]

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[ More ] November 8th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Cultivation |

Beckons Industries in a joint venture with a German company

BSE-listed Beckons Industries based in Punjab, India has joined hands with Germany-based Deutsche Gesellschafr Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH to set up an algae production facililty and a centre of excellence in India. The set up will presumably produce algal biomass from with the help of photobioreactors (PBRs). Beckons Industries is already into development of PBR Technology [...]

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[ More ] November 8th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Investments |

India enters algae biofuel research scene with a wonderful consortium.

Scientists from across the country, belonging to a consortium of nine laboratories, are working on an ambitious project called ‘New Millennium India Technology Leadership Initiative’ ( NMITLI), to develop a viable and scalable process of biofuel from microalgae, undertaken by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. The laboratories are Central Salt and [...]

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[ More ] November 2nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Amazing Algae-Asia Conference – Who Says What?

A remarkable event comprising of many algae enthusiasts all around the world was conducted by the Centre for Management Technology (CMT) in Singapore on the 19th and the 20th of last month. The event com prised of many intellectual delegates keen on updating their knowledge on the latest developments in the algae-energy industry. Several discerning [...]

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[ More ] November 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-CO2-Capture, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Events |

Algae fuels in the league of conventional fuels

Photon8 Inc., a biofuels startup company headquartered at the UTB-TSC ITEC Center, is announcing another breakthrough in its development of the commercially viable production of biofuel from algae. Brad Bartilson, the firm’s president and CEO, said Photon8′s scientists have discovered a way around problems associated with ethanol and biodiesel, the two biofuels currently on the market. Both [...]

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[ More ] November 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Fuel |

Algae recycles GHGs

An innovative clean energy project is being conducted in Australia to commercialise technology that consumes large quantities of greenhouse gases while producing low cost bio-oil and animal feedstock. The environmentally friendly technology uses special strains of algae to consume the greenhouse gases emitted by power stations. The $10 million project is being undertaken by James Cook [...]

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[ More ] November 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel |

Algenol’s real green fuel

Algenol is working on making ethanol from algae in photobioreactors connected to power plants. Like with all types of biofuels, the most important question with algae-ethanol has always been: Is it really greener than fossil fuels? And if so, how much? A team from Algenol and Georgia Tech tried to answer that question by doing [...]

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[ More ] October 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel |

Aurora’s Australian headquarters

Aurora Algae, one of the leading algae biofuel companies has expanded its operations to Perth, Australia. The company has opened its new Regional Headquarters for overseeing the construction as well as the operation of its first facility on a commercial-scale in Northwest Australia. The inauguration of the company’s Perth office along with the ramping up [...]

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[ More ] October 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Energy-Companies |

Shell lands in Hawaii for algae biodiesel

Shell is seeking to build a facility for the purpose of creating biodiesel from algae in two years’ time, pursuant to yesterday’s launch of a joint venture to start a research project in Hawaii. Starting at the beginning with a small facility in partnership with Hawaii based Biopetroleum, Shell will soon move on to large [...]

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[ More ] October 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Energy-Companies |

U.K Universities collaborate to produce algae biodiesel at scale.

An elite scientific team drawn from leading research institutions in the UK, are progressing well in a bid to find a successful formula to create low-cost biofuel in vast quantities. It hopes to develop a system to cultivate and process 70 billion litres of algae biofuel a year, cost effectively and sustainably by 2030. This will [...]

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[ More ] October 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel |

Beckons plans joint venture with German co for biodiesel

Beckons Industries, based in Punjab, was in the limelight  a few months back for starting itself as an algae fuel company, has been mostly in the shadows ever since. However, this news excerpt from the Hindu on the 13th of this month  adds to its wall of progress. The excerpt reads: BSE-listed Beckons Industries, engaged [...]

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[ More ] October 21st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Energy-Companies |

Dutch algae technology plays key role in Australian carbon storage program

PRESS RELEASE Industry leader MBD Energy purchases Evodos algae harvesting systems Loosdrecht, The Netherlands, 10 September 2010 – Evodos B.V., the developer and producer of ‘high concentration / no chemical’ centrifugal systems, today announced that industry leader MBD Energy Limited has defined the Evodos algae harvesting centrifuges as key technology. MBD Energy has purchased a [...]

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[ More ] October 19th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-CO2-Capture |

Bubble-maker boosts algal growth

A bubble-maker that looks like the flux capacitor from the Back to the Future films won a £250,000 prize from the Royal Society for its ability to transform the cost and effectiveness of growing algae for biofuel, treating sewage and cooling computers. The Y-shaped device delivers tiny but perfectly formed bubbles by mimicking the way children [...]

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[ More ] October 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Biodiesel |

Electronics reused to cultivate algae for biofuel!

Kenney, along with undergraduate students Timothy Harvey, Elliot DeVries and Mark Schnitzer, and graduate student Saeidreza Shiftehfar was focused on finding a way to be green, and ended up winning second place in the International Electronic Waste Competition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with their unique design of using electronic waste as a [...]

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[ More ] October 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel |

New funds pour into fed algae research

CABC (Consortium for Algal Biofuels Commercialization), SABC (Sustainable Algal Biofuels Consortium), and Cellana, LLC Consortium just received a large grant of twenty four million dollars from the federal government in algae fuel research. Each group has been designated specific tasks to tackle the obstacles laid forth by algae’s ability to yield energy. Investigating new ways [...]

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[ More ] October 15th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae |

BASF And Solix Biofuels embark on specialty chemicals production

Press release: LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY AND FT. COLLINS, CO, USA — September 22, 2010 — BASF SE and Solix Biofuels, Inc. today announced that they have signed an agreement to investigate the use of algae to produce certain chemicals for BASF. Solix is a leading developer of algae cultivation technology systems and will test multiple algae [...]

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[ More ] October 15th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae |

Solazyme and Ecopetrol Extend Partnership to Produce Renewable Oil and Bioproducts Using Microalgae in Colombia

Press Release: South San Francisco – October 7, 2010 – Solazyme, Inc., an industrial biotechnology company producing renewable oils and bioproducts using microalgae, has signed its third development agreement with Ecopetrol (EC, NYSE), the largest company in Colombia and one of the four major oil companies in Latin America, to analyze manufacturing viability of algae-based [...]

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[ More ] October 14th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Energy-Investments |

The latest status update for algal biofuels

Would economical petrol production be possible from algae? Taking into account the recent developments in algal biotechnology, it is possible to achieve this feat well witjin the next 10-15 years. The current cost of algal biofuel production is three times that of oil and two times that of rapeseed oil. The cost of producing biodiesel [...]

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[ More ] October 14th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Energy-Cost |

Arizona’s new algae cultivation push!

The sunny state of Arizona is one of the most suitable regions in the world for algae biomass production. Proponents hope that algae, which can contain up to 60 percent oil, can someday squeeze out a petroleum substitute that could be produced at a price low enough to compete with natural gas. But first, researchers [...]

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[ More ] October 13th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Energy-Companies |

Algae as aviation fuel

Large scale cultivation of algae might be carried out near airports to fuel airlines in an attemopt to find green fuels for aviation. Industry giants including British Airways and Airbus are supporting a project at the UK’s Cranfield University to investigate ways of harvesting algae for jet fuel in commercial quantities. British Airways announced earlier this [...]

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[ More ] October 13th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Investments |

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