$1.3 billion for 19 Biorefinery projects

$ 1.3 b for biorefinery projects all over usa by the Gov.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/177924-bluefire-archer-daniels-to-benefit-from-federal-biorefinery-millions

Heating oil industry makeover

Many farmers have started to grow a “next-generation biofuel” like algae. In fact, many are talking up algae as a major potential source of energy; some have forecasted that algae could produce 5,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre, a much higher rate of return than other biofuels. If algae does become a primary energy source, [...]

Processes to produce biodiesel/fueloil

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/ja/ia.jsp?ia=BR2008%2F000128&IA=BR2008000128&DISPLAY=DESC

Exxon to spend more than $600m on Algae

http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Files/news_pub_eo_2009.pdf

Sapphire Energy gets $104.5 m to develop Green Crude

Sapphire Energy gets $104.5 million to develop Green Crude

Investing in Algae to biofuel

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the earth was covered with shallow oceans filled with algae and other simple critters. As landmasses shifted and grew, water was displaced, leaving thick masses of algal residue that were eventually buried and compressed. Skip forward a few eons, throw in some heat and pressure and ta-da! Oil. Then, [...]

DOE bets on 3.. One of them is Algae!

Carbon dioxide capture is considered a mainline strategy for reducing carbon dioxide emissions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but it requires a substantial percentage of the energy that the plant produces to do ii.

Who wants what in Copenhagan

This week, officials from 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen to tackle global climate change, seeking a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Even if they can’t negotiate a binding agreement, many countries hope at least to work out commitments to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions and provide assistance to poorer countries likely to be hardest [...]

Groundbreaking Nanofarming Tech for Algae

Groundbreaking “nanofarming” technology that safely harvests oil from the algae so the pond-based “crop” can keep on producing has been developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University. The “nanofarming” technology uses nanoparticles to extract oil from the algae. The process doesn’t harm the algae like other methods [...]

Cost-competitive Biofuel from Algae

The tiny particles developed by Ames and Iowa state are described as surface-functionalized mesoporous nanoparticles, aka incredibly tiny sponges. The research team headed by Dr. Victor Shang-Yi Lin has fine tuned both the surface and pores of the particles, to make them absorb the free fatty acids used in biofuel production.

Feds fund Sapphire Energy Algae Project

The company will use the federal funds to build and operate a commercial-scale demonstration plant to grow algae in ponds and refine it into a variety of fuels for ground and air transportation

San Diego – Hub for Algae based Fuels

San Diego is now number one hub for algae biofuels !

Solazyme named No 1 Company

Solazyme rated numero uno in the biofuels industry.
An algae company !

Pursuit Dynamics to Pursue Algae Biofuel

http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/engineering/new-broom-changes-model-in-pursuit-of-profitability.html
Source http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/engineering/new-broom-changes-model-in-pursuit-of-profitability.html

Paper thin Batteries from Algae

Cellulose being the major constituent of paper, one can imagine cellulose obtained from cladopora 100 times that of it… Truely fascinating…. Read More: http://bit.ly/91ojoq