Oilgae Story | Site Map | Contact Us | RSS
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Huge water-borne farms can turn the tide against increasing greenhouse gases If a group of Japanese scientists is to be believed, the fate of humanity may rest on colossal floating islands of sargassum and Sostera marina. The team envisages 100 vast nets full of quick-growing seaweed, each measuring six miles [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. A picture of Fred Tennant, vice president of business development for Petro-Algae, examining plastic tubes filled with algae from floridatoday.com. The algae is used to innoculate larger tanks. Tennant said”This is where we grow our babies,”. PetroAlgae plans to produce 6,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre per year at the [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Reuters.com has published a picture of Nicholas Eckelberry, co-founder and inventor of OriginOil, standing next to two test batches of nannochloropsis algae at the company’s laboratory in Los Angeles http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/searchpopup?picId=7690856 By the way, have you subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?; How about joining the Oilgae mailing list?; and our forum [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. GreenShift Corporation today announced that it has received a grant award of $375,000 to further the development of GreenShift`s patented and patent-pending algae bioreactor. The funding is provided through the Montana Board of Research and Commercialization, a unit of the Montana Department of Commerce. The objective of the grant award [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Came across an interesting abstract for algae cultivation: “A method for producing biomass of microalgae and fishes economically by establishing a symbiotic relation between the above two organisms in a culture pond exposed to sunlight or artificial illumination.” A method for producing microalgae and fish biomass in commercial quantities through [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Lots of good questions and brief but useful answers – a good reference. Link here By the way, have you subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?; How about joining the Oilgae mailing list?; and our forum to discuss on with others?
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Scientists have known for some time that artificially created algal blooms could be used to absorb greenhouse gases, but the technique has been banned for fear of causing unforeseen side effects in fragile ecosystems. However, based on the UK team’s evidence that the process has been occurring naturally for millions [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Rodney Andrews, Director of the UK Center for Applied Energy Research, said the country’s demand for energy means fossil fuels like coal won’t be going away anytime soon. And while algae may strike some as science fiction, it has been drawing attention on several fronts: Sapphire Energy of San Diego [...]
You are at: Oilgae BlogUOP general manager renewable energy and chemicals Jennifer Holmgren says UOP researchers were told they would never get the low freeze point, the high flash point or the high energy content needed for an aviation biofuel.But they have done just that using a process similar to one already used to produce [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Several firms are betting that the oils from algae might replace the petrochemical oils used to manufacture plastics, says this post. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have shown it’s possible, and PetroSun is using some of the algal oil from its farm to conduct bioplastics research, it [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Here’s a detailed and useful post on the problems and stand in the way of algae becoming the dominant biofuel feedstock. While I’d say that the author has looked only at one aspect of algae energy (the biodiesel part), and not much from the algae ethanol or algae to hydrocarbons [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. They are into aquaculture, pond & lake care & aeration Aquaculture – Continuous algae production, Algal nutrients & culture media, Algal cultures, Algal concentrates, Rotifers, Artemia, Bio-Security, Aquarium Products, Chlorine – Ammonia control Pond & Lake Care – A complete range of economic, environmentally friendly and safe water treatments for [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. “We are pioneers in the field of advanced microalgae farming. With our unique and patented fotobioreactor technology together with our long-term experience in algae cultivation, we provide to our costumers an outstanding quality of our products – our ambition and responsibility.” – so says this company located in Klötze, GermanyProf. [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. This is a private Texas corporation engaged in research, development and commercialization of algae biomass technology for reduction of water and greenhouse gas pollutants and production of renewable fuel feed stocks and animal feeds. Sunrise Ridge sponsors research in several areas with the University of Texas at Austin, and owns [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Here’s another company I came across, also in BC, Canada – Sunx Energy Biodiesel Research & Development Sunx Energy is progressing towards the efficient culturing and harvesting of Algae Oil for Biodiesel on production scale. Its First Phase Algae Initiative is completed with a feasibility study and the development of [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. This company Canadin Pacific Algae ( http://canadianpacificalgae.com ) has some interesting algae energy projects going on, under the following banners: Canadian Pacific Phytoplankton Ltd. – Canadian Pacific Phytoplankton Ltd. is located in Nanaimo BC. with partners located in nine countries. The company has the ability to grow phytoplankton using its [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Japan Airlines says it will be the first Asian carrier to fly using a sustainable biofuel refined from the energy crop camelina. This month it will use a blend of 50 percent biofuel and 50 percent traditional Jet-A jet fuel on a B747-300 aircraft. The biofuel component will be a [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. San Diego, home to dozens of companies involved in solar or wind energy, would be a major player in energy economy if researchers succeed in turning algae into a commercially viable transportation fuel. “It is the scientific challenge of our generation,” said Stephen Mayfield, a cell biologist and associate dean [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. The US biofuels industry is expected to undergo consolidation in 2009, with many of ethanol and biodiesel plants either closing or being absorbed by a few larger players who will dominate the market. Some biodiesel industry representatives continue to argue that soy-based biofuels have little influence on food markets supply [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Camille Naaktgeboren, a NAU graduate student working on her PhD, is studying algae as an alternative source of energy. The lipids (fats) from these algae can be used to produce biodiesel. “To meet the energy needs of the future we will not rely on a single or a few sources [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Air New Zealand has tested a passenger jet powered partially with oil from jatropha, in efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and cut its fuel bill.Along with investing in new technology to replace outdated fleets and new designs that reduce weight and air resistance, the International Air Transport Association says [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. As the co-founder of Kai BioEnergy, Larach has been tracking a nationwide surge of interest in algae-to-biofuel technology as he seeks venture funding for his company. Larach says growing a particular species of algae in open ponds poses other problems. One is the challenge of eliminating “weed algae” that seems [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. In an unassuming converted warehouse in Los Angeles, the 10 employees of OriginOil are working to perfect the way microscopic algae is grown and refined.They hope that within a few years the methods they use to make small batches of greenish-colored algae mixtures in the laboratory will be imitated in [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Governor Jennifer M. Granholm has signed legislation that will advance the state’s efforts to expand the production and use of renewable fuels in Michigan. The eleven bills were part of a series of recommendations from the state’s Renewable Fuels Commission, established in 2006. The legislation includes five additional renewable energy [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Khosla Ventures and Hawaiian Electric Co. have agreed to collaborate on evaluation and early deployment of green-energy technologies. The companies will work with entrepreneurs and start-up companies developing clean technology with the goal of accelerating the commercialization of promising new products and services. Hawaiian Electric is partnering in an algae [...]
 |
Read More |
More ››
