BioFuels LLC plans to open a pilot biofuel production facility, the company announced Thursday. The Cranston-based company said the facility would capture emissions from a neighboring power plant and use them to accelerate the growth of algae. The plant will extract vegetable oil from the algae to produce biodiesel fuel. The facility will then send […]

Toyota Motor Corp.’s research and development unit, Hitachi Ltd. and more than 40 other Japanese companies and institutions have joined a national study into algae’s potential for producing biofuel and chemicals. Autoparts maker Denso Corp., refiners Nippon Oil Corp. and Idemitsu Kosan Co. and soy sauce maker Kikkoman Corp. will also join the study led […]

Here is an interesting summary of top companies which are working on algae fuels by Anya Kamenetz, a staff writer for Fast Company magazine: Algae Fuel’s Pioneers. This article summarizes the efforts of Algenol, Sapphire, Solazyme and Synthetic Genomics.

Monday June 7th was the ribbon cutting for one of the first integrated algae – crude oil systems. CEHMM and SRS Energy have partnered to develop one of the first integrated algae oil pilot production facility. CEHMM, a 501(C)(3) owns and operates an outdoor raceway pond system for cultivating lipid rich marine microalgae. SRS Energy […]

The last ten days have been hectic for those in the genetic engineering field. Synthetic life has been created, scream the headlines, and well, it is no hoax, at least not entirely. The man at the center of it all, Craig Venter, is no stranger to those in the field of biotech, having been associated […]

Press release Soley Biotechnology Institute started to provide some bacteria mixtures for pond agriculture. Mixture 1: FOR REMOVING H2S FROM PONDS Oxidizing H2S by Bacteria Paracoccus pantotrophus 3 Billion cfu/ml Mixture 2: FOR INHIBITING HARMFUL BACTERIAL GROWTH WASTE DEGREDATION FOR HEALTHY YOUNG SHRIMP CULTURES Bacillus subtilis Bacillus licheniformis Bacillus pumilus 20 Billion cfu/ml Mixture 3: […]

Press release Learn about growing, harvesting and extraction Co-Sponsored by National Algae Association and BARD HOLDING June 17, 2010 BARD Holding 1 Ben Fairless Drive, Fairless Hills, PA 19030 National Algae Association and BARD Holdings are pleased to announce that Bucks County Commissioner and Republican candidate for Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley, Will Thurmond of […]

Florida-based BioMarine Fuels Inc. has recently filed a patent application on its new SolarMagnatron algae biomass production system. According to CEO and inventor, John D. Ericsson, “we believe this unique commercial technology break-though will grow energy-rich biomass at substantially elevated reproduction rates using 24/7/365 day natural and/or artificial sunlight plus electromagnetic energy which will turbo […]

Beckons Industries Ltd (BIL) has commenced operations for taking the development of Algae Photobioreactor Technology further at sunny Goa which is very conducive for the growth of Algae due to minimum variation of temperature near the ocean. This initiative will help in faster commercialization of Algae Photobioreactor Technology and revenues from Algae oil, which is […]

Algae: From Raceway to Runway/Opportunities for Renewable Energy and Economic Development- A briefing on work being done at the Pecos Algae Research and Development Facility, a pilot scale site on the Texas AgriLife Research Station at Pecos. WHERE: The Algae Research and Development Facility is eight miles west of Pecos at 947 West I-20. To […]

Harry Teague , a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has sponsored bills promoting green and renewable energy, including the Algae-based Renewable Fuel Promotion Act. Here is an interesting article written by him on algae fuels: Time to turn to algae-based fuel

Bioenergy research projects currently involving Aston University include the £6.2m Supergen bioenergy project. Managed by Aston, it involves 14 research organisations and nine companies delivering a UK centre of excellence in bioenergy and biofuels research and development. Aston is also working with Severn Trent Water to transform sewage sludge into energy, and Johnson Matthey to […]

A two-day Algae World Summit that began on May 17 at the Del Mar Hilton is more of the same, with sessions on “real world” experiences in growing algae, “meeting the challenges” of growing algae in industrial quantities, and practical considerations in project development. Jose Olivares outlined some of these technical issues for me when […]

According to a report in The Nikkei, Toyota will team up with Chuo University and Japan’s Agriculture Ministry to begin a research project with the aim to produce biofuel from the algae Pseudochoricystis. One of Toyota’s suppliers – Denso – has actually been working on biofuels derived from this form of algae for several years. […]

OriginOil, Inc. announced today that it recently launched MAX ONE, its first mobile algae extraction laboratory. A private party of investors and supporters celebrated the unveiling at the company’s headquarters in Los Angeles. The trailer-based system will visit algae producing companies in the US to demonstrate how OriginOil’s Single Step Extraction(TM) process can help them […]

Five students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created an algae growth contraption from old computer parts and other waste materials that they say can help replace fossil fuels and bring algae growth for biofuel production down to the household level. Bio-Grow was assembled with the side panels of an Apple G4 CPU […]

Craig Venter, the US genomics pioneer, announced last night that scientists at his laboratories in Maryland and California had succeeded in their 15-year project to make the world’s first “synthetic cells” – bacteria called Mycoplasma mycoides . “We have passed through a critical psychological barrier,” Dr Venter told the Financial Times. “It has changed my […]

Press Release: Learn about growing, harvesting and extraction Co-Sponsored by National Algae Association and BARD HOLDING June 17, 2010 BARD Holding 1 Ben Fairless Drive, Fairless Hills, PA 19030 Algae oil is renewable, does not affect the food channel and consumes CO2.  Come learn about algae oil as a potential feedstock to help biodiesel producers become self-sustainable.  It’s one solution […]

Here are 5 issues with Algae fuels that are covered in the book on jatropha and algae as fuel sources by Robert Rapier. 1. The present cost of algae production from open ponds is too high to make fuel production economically viable. 2. Photobioreactors (PBRs) are too expensive. 3. The energy inputs into the algae […]

Press Release With an eye toward young talent leading the future of algaebioenergy development, the National Algae Association, in cooperation with Algae Industry Magazine, announces the launch of the Algae Innovation Awards, a scholarship competition for innovative university microbiology and engineering students as well as for high school science students. Scholarships will be awarded for […]

Press Release You can submit an abstract for oral presentation at the “First Canada-US Symposium on Microalgae for Bioenergy and Other Applications” The purpose of this symposium is to bring together expertise from industry, government and academic research and present leading edge technologies and ideas around this very important and relevant topic. The registration is […]

Beckons Industries Ltd has entered into agreement with Water and Oil Technologies Inc, USA. In a statement issued on Tuesday said both the companies plan to commercilise BIL technology of photobioreactor for algae growing and WOT technology of harvesting and downstream processing of algae products such as oil, protein, carbohydrates and antioxi dants. These projects […]

Valero Energy Corporation, one of the largest US oil refiners, took another step into the alternative fuel space by forming a joint venture with algae-to-fuel company Algenol Biofuels Inc. The companies did not disclose how much Valero will invest in the algae technology. They said they will explore combining Algenol’s Direct to Ethanol® technology with […]

Nelson-based biofuels entrepreneur Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation says it has picked up another role in a multi-million dollar American project involving the United States government’s interest in algae-based fuels. Aquaflow will collaborate, as a co-funding partner, with the United States Gas Technology Institute (GTI) on an advanced biomass conversion technology programme worth $US3.1 million ($NZ4.2m), which […]

This vertical hybrid aircraft is fuelled by algae bio-fuel harvested from the floating organic ocean farms powered by seaweed with a combination of inflatable photovoltaic cells and wind propellers utilized as a supplementary renewable energy source. The algae farm is also an organic purifying station taking in carbon dioxide delivered by ships and processed by […]