In Arizona, the 2010 Algae Biomass Summit, the official conference of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) and the algae industry’s premier global conference, released the event’s newly-expanded agenda featuring more than 70 speakers and seven new sessions. The 4th annual event will be held September 28-30 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, Arizona. […]

Press Release Algae Industry Magazine (A.I.M.) has selected their Science and Industry Advisory Board. This panel of top industry professionals has been assembled to analyze and advise A.I.M. publishers regarding technology and controversial issues in the algae biofuels and co-products industry. “In this rapidly developing industry it is extremely beneficial to have the diverse talents […]

Nofima Ingrediens (http://www.nofima.no/en), a business oriented research group working in research and development for the aquaculture, fisheries and food industry in Norway seeks a letter of intent from potential industries to contribute to the project proposal to the Norwegian Research Council on the use of alternatives to fish oil lipid sources for fish feeds. They […]

Solazyme, Inc. is helping the U.S. military move  closer to powering its planes, ships, tanks and trucks on renewable fuel and has delivered of 1,500 gallons of 100% algae-based jet fuel for the U.S. Navy’s testing and certification program. The U.S. Navy has previously announced the objective to operate at least 50% of its fleet […]

According to Cynthia Warner, speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in 2009, algae is 40 times more efficient at photosynthesis than any other plant, which makes it the king of bio-fuels. Last year, 4% of the US transportation fuel supply came from corn based ethanol. It took 23 million acres to achieve that. Warner says […]

U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman said a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report suggests that American taxpayers might be over-subsidizing corn-based biofuels, even while failing to provide any tax credit for algae-based fuels, which hold great promise for the nation’s environment and energy security, and for Southern New Mexico’s economy. Current law provides a 45-cents-per-gallon credit […]

ExxonMobil unveiled the opening of a greenhouse in which to take to the next level the research and testing of algae as the basis for a fuel. Exxon, like all major oil producers, has been looking into potential fuels to supplement or even replace traditional hydrocarbon-based fuels. And while its investment is small in the […]

A Royal Netherlands Air Force Apache (AH-64D) helicopter recently conducted a successful flight test at Gilzen-Rijen Air Base, in the Netherlands, during which one of the helicopter’s two engines was powered by an alternative biofuel. The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) provided the Royal Air Force with support during the preparations for and conducting of the […]

The Aquatic Species Program was launched in 1978 by president Jimmy Carter to explore the potential of algae as an energy source. About $25 million was put into the program until it was shelved by the Clinton administration in 1996.  They never found the ‘lipid trigger’ — the trick to making the organisms produce lipids […]

Press Release What if… all American algaepreneurs, producers, researchers, technologies, harvesting, extraction and equipment manufacturers and engineering companies who agree that algae could be one solution to help get the US off of foreign oil joined together in an open collaborative environment and developed preliminary designs for a 100 acre commercial-scale algae production system, identifying […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Yarmouth, ME – Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc. of Yarmouth, Maine, USA, today announced that it is collaborating with Lone Star Biotechnology Institute, part of the Lone Star Community College in Texas, on the college’s algae-to-biofuel research program. Fluid Imaging is providing a FlowCAM® imaging particle analysis instrument to the institute’s algae research […]

Press Release: Learn about the Algae Production Industry and Review Financial Models Algae is one solution to help  the US get off of foreign oil, create jobs and reduce CO2 emissions. The National Algae Association, a 501(c)6, invites US Private Equity, Mezzanine and Senior Debt Lenders to attend an educational algae production and market workshop.  Attendees will  learn and discuss CAPEX […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Arizona State University a $6 million grant as part of a program focused on algae-based biofuels. The program supports the development of a clean, sustainable transportation sector – a goal of DOE’s continued effort to spur the creation of a domestic bio-industry while creating jobs. This round […]

DOE’s “National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap” was released in final form yesterday after a year of public comment and revisions on a draft. The report summarize the state of technology today and point to directions for future work, dives into great detail on the biology of various kinds of algae, means of cultivating and harvesting […]

Part of the Cambridge team – which includes plant scientists, biochemists, mathematicians, and chemical engineers – is developing a biophotovoltaic device to produce green electricity by tapping into the ability of algae to harness solar energy. This is the first time that whole cells of algae have been used to power an electrical device. Although […]

Researchers at Arizona State University have found a way to harvest oil from cyanobacteria, the photosynthesizing blue-green algae. After being reprogrammed, the cyanobacteria act like miniature biofuel factories, continuously leaking fatty acid oil through their cell walls. The oil separates from the bacteria and becomes a floating, whitish residue. Researchers induced the microbes to focus […]

Ineos Bio, part of the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has this month taken a step closer to making this concept a reality by securing £7.3m ($10.9m) of grants towards its development of Europe’s first waste to bioethanol plant. “You can’t replace the world’s transport fuels with 100 per cent biofuels but you can make a […]

The Canadian government has awarded approximately C$5million to a project to produce fuels on a large scale from algae grown in Nova Scotia. The money comes through the National Bioproducts Programme, with additional resources of around C$1.2million being provided by both monetary and in-kind contributions from industrial and organisational partners. Plans have already been drawn […]

A research and development facility for algae biofuels will soon be built on The University of Toledo Scott Park Campus for Energy and Innovation. The pilot-scale facility is part of a research project recently awarded a nearly $3 million grant through the Ohio Third Frontier Wright Projects Program that links research capabilities of Ohio’s colleges, […]

The recent news release about the 30 trans formative technologies in 2010 made me to dig up the latest about the algae fuel companies listed: Solazyme, Algenol, OriginOil, Sapphire energy and Petroalgae. Here is the collection of latest press releases by the companies. Solazyme Solazyme is recently listed in the 30 most transformative technologies in […]

In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the winners of its “30 Most Transformative Technologies of 2010″ poll. The publication’s readers submitted more than 48,000 votes from 3,500 ballots during the three-week voting process. The readers chose between transformative bioenergy technologies at more than 250 companies, universities and national laboratories, including 100 organizations that received write-in votes. […]

EASEL Biotechnologies this week won a 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for Recycled Fuel Breakthroughs from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The brains behind the company belong to co-founder James C. Liao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UCLA. In his research at the university, Liao used genetically modified E. coli bacteria […]

Press Release: It’s one solution to help the US reduce its dependence on foreign oil and create new green jobs. The algae industry is quickly moving technologies out of the lab and into commercial-scale algae production.  Many new algae production plants are scaling-up to produce algae oil and biomass for co-products.  Algae proven technologies are being benchmarked for commercial […]

Federal scientists and their private-sector partners said a $5-million National Research Council project in Nova Scotia that will test the creation of biofuels from the unicellular organism could help ignite a provincial energy industry. “It’s really cool,” Gary Goodyear, the federal minister of science and technology, said during the funding announcement. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/06/04/algae-biofuel.html#ixzz0rD69Tbmp

A Purdue University researcher will lead a portion of a federally funded effort based at Iowa State University aimed at creating genetically engineered algae for environmentally friendly biodiesel production. Currently, hydrocarbon fuels such as diesel and gasoline require complex chemical processing to be manufactured and are made primarily from non-renewable fossil fuels, which are being […]