North Korea has decided to invest in algal life, and is hoping to harness the organism and use it as a “strategic resource”. Sources believe the country has ventured into the area in the interests of national security. The researchers at Johns Hopkins believe that North Korea hopes the algae industry could soon “mitigate the […]

Marc Veillette, a researcher from the Sherbrooke University, Canada is attempting to develop a new good-quality biodiesel from the algae isolated from St. Lawrence River. Veillette states that the algae grows well naturally in the St. Lawrence estuary and is able to produce good-quality biodiesel, owing to its special characteristics. The fuel doesn’t crystallize quickly […]

Ford joins the algae fuel race to better understand the use of biomass to produce future biofuels as part of an overall strategy to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil and address climate change. and they see algae as one renewable fuel it needs to study. They planned to venture into  this exciting domain […]

In the past few months, the Oilgae team members have been asked by at least a dozen companies what we thought of having algal biomass as a substitute for coal in future. Fat chance if you are looking to microalgae. I will focus this article on microalgae and prove without much ado why it stands […]

Solazyme – the south Francisco based company which follows an altogether different approach (dark fermentation- Earlier post) to make algae products have announced that  Unilever has joined its Series D Round of funding along with other strategic investors plus venture firms VantagePoint Venture Partners, Braemer Energy Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. What will Unilever and […]

An algae bioenergy event  is being organised by the National Algae Association(NAA). All the registeration information can be obtained from the following link – http://www.nationalalgaeassociation.com. All algaepreneurs from all over the world are expected to attend this mega event. Its not just a conference, there is more – Scholarships will be awarded for  the most […]

This summit and exhibition –  Defining The Future Biofuels Market taking place on 13-14 September 2010 in Berlin  invites biofuel enthusiasts to learn, network and generate sales at ground-breaking annual biofuel and biomass event focused on the development of renewable sources of energy. This high-profile event expects to get  connected  with plant builders, financiers, consultants, […]

The New Mexico  State University  (NSMU) has secured a fund of  $200,000 . The university plans to use  a portion of its funding for renewable energy research, specially to fund the algae biodiesel project.  The fund has been provided by the  New Mexico Gov – Bill Richardson According to Abbas Ghassemi,  a NMSU professor of […]