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Position with Major Algae Producer on West Coast - 1 year ago
I am currently seeking to hire a Ph D with strong algae experience for project work out on the West coast in the United States. Must have five years ...- more
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We have just sold every litre of oil that we can produce, and are looking for a further 30,000 MT of Rapeseed, Jatropha or Palm OIL per month. more
http://www.powerplantccs.com/forum/Algae nova is right. There is no one to fend for us. We need to save ourselves.Algae to oil is all our eyes are on.But the world may reach a ... more
Hi Paulo, We beleive that we have the most cost effective bioreactor, and are prepared to share our knowledge on signature of a non disclosure agreement. more
Fossil fuel has not run out yet. When it begins to we will see panic, hardship and more wars. Why not prepare pre-emptively. more
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Alan ! Well said. There is no arguement left for open raceway ponds model anymore. More than the cost, the foot print draws my attention, although there is a huge diff ... more
Prof S. Elumalai has been a serious researcher on algae from bio fuel. It is heartening to note that my city Chennai is now getting big time in the oil ... more
This is something similar to what is being tried in California."An algae-based wastewater treatment project is planned to be started in May, at Laguna wastewater treatment plant in the city ... more
Good to know that India too is joining the algae biofuel race. There is an urgent need for a number of private companies to team up with the best of ... more
Vertigro is an interesting concept, to have tall pbrs like the one's Alan designs, next to a coal plant to consume the CO2 and grow algae 24 hours. IN once ... more
World Health Energy Holdings, Inc. gets a ticker symbol of WHEN , a public holding company operating in the alternative energy sector. That is a terrific symbol to get. WHAT's ... more
I am copying a mail from Riggs of Origin Oil. " If you're in the USA, you know there's widespread speculation that the Republicans will take back ground tomorrow in the House, Senate and in ... more
Cultivating local wild algae would be ideal for biofuel if they could produce sufficient percentages of lipid oil, unfortunately they can't. Algae cannot be cultivated in open ponds because of ... more
.In a move the service says is part of its strategy to float a ?Green Fleet? by 2016, the US Navy demoed for media today a boat that runs ? ... more
A bubble-maker that looks like the flux capacitor from the Back to the Future films last night won a ?250,000 prize from the Royal Society for its ability to transform ... more
About two and a half years ago, Katie Fehrenbacher made a list of Algae fuel companies that one should know.The companies listed were GreenFuel Technologies: Solazyme, Blue Marble Energy, Inventure ... more
Bionavitas is supposed to be making low cost PBRs, isnt it ? Anyone who has tried their pbr ? more
I agree with Shankar. Now the price question has been resolved to a great extent. Let us congratulate Solazyme for delivering a large quantity, the first of its kind, a pioneering ... more
Interesting comments. There are those who are very optimistic who are going ahead and setting up a project and here are people who think it is infeasible. I do understand that there ... more
The gold dust twins of advanced biofuels, Jonathan Wolfson and Harrison Dillon at Solazyme have been working nearly a decade on their Solazyme brainchild and ran the gamut on ways to grow algae before settling on their 'grow in the dark' strategy. KRUPALI
Paul Woods, who has shepherded Algenol Biofuels from a little-known start-up to near household-recognition status within biofuels, landing a signature partnership with Dow and a massive grant from DOE for its unique algae-to-ethanol process. KRUPALI
Saline aquifers will provide cheap source of water but how will evaporated water be replaced and how will changing water chemistry affect yields?
Compared to a normal plant, which grows vertically, an algae grows 360 degrees. So does it grow 360 times that of an average plant ??
Best of luck Parkavi ! more
I came across this radio / BBC site about richard branson and algae.I have always been fascinated by Richard Branson.I am not able to get the accent perhaps due to the ... more
Thanks Duncan. more
Dr. Venter is turning from reading the genetic code to an even more audacious goal: writing it. !!
Algae is the answer it is just a question of the most cost effective system. We are working predominantly in this diretion.From our extensive research we have arrived at these ... more
Algae need water and Nitrogen (amongst other things)and the simple answer to both is URINE. more
A process breakthrough of extracting world-class Agarose a gelatinous substance from Gracilaria dura, a seaweed mostly found on Gujarat coast has burst the global myth that Indian seaweeds are poor ... more
"When you get to economics, you have to ask how one values carbon"
Companies that rely on photosynthesis exclusively to grow algae are being overly optimistic on the amount of land that's required.
Fish oil capsules have not been popular with al due to their fishy smell and also the fear that the fish used for extracting oilmay have been contaminated by ocean ... more