Tag: algae
Canadian project will seek to produce algae from oil sands CO2 emissions
Tweet In Canada, a three-year project will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products like biofuels. The Algal Carbon Conversion Pilot Project, a partnership among the National Research Council of Canada, Canadian Natural Resources Limited and Pond Biofuels, will result in the construction of a unique, [...]
The Moguls of Algae
Tweet New, high-potential algae strain discovered in Colorado snowfields. Should algae’s future nabobs and magnates be out there traversing the slopes? Those whose family chronicles make reference to the Great Irish Potato Famine of 1845-49 and the subsequent starvation of more than 1 million and the emigration of at least another million — may take [...]
Algae: Times and Needs Have Changed
Tweet By Barry Cohen, Executive Director, National Algae Association The DoE has spent $2.5 billion on algae research but to date nothing has been commercialized. Why? Because their mission is to develop technologies. It’s not their problem or concern what happens to them – they just continue to develop them! We need your help! We [...]
“The European Parliament is making a bad biofuels proposal worse.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: wynndalcoEnt DOE Announces New Webinars on Integrating Solar Power into the Grid, Using Biofuels in Military Vehicles & more Sean_OHanlon: How #Algae #Biofuels technologies are growing in Qatar LeadrshpSystems The European Parliament is making a bad biofuels proposal worse
Crazy 8s: Algae’s 8 crazy-fast cores of innovation
Tweet Who’s behind the 8-ball, the algae optimists or pessimists? It all comes down to the pace of innovation in 8 cores. Predictions of when algae biofuels will become an everyday option at scale are, famously, all over the map — ranging from “the next few years” to “never”. In a recent survey of its [...]
Short Takes: Algae webinar on non-freshwater systems
Tweet Mary Rosenthal and leading algae experts from the membership of the Alge Biomass Organization will lead for a webinar on the potential for the use of non-freshwater resources for algae. The webinar takes place on Thursday, May 9 from 2-3 pm eastern time. Dr. Stephen Mayfield, head of the San Diego Center for Algae [...]
NAA chief says algae critic is “not looking at real-world conditions”
Tweet In Texas, Barry Cohen, the executive director of the National Algae Association, says Kansas State professor Peter Pfromm is “not looking at real-world conditions” in critiquing the economic potential of algae production. “Pfromm’s assumption that the algae would be grown in open ponds is an old, out-dated technology, and most algae growers are using [...]
Search for edible Malarial vaccine leads to other potential medical uses for algae
Tweet In California, biologists at UC San Diego are looking to answer whether or not scientists can rid malaria from the Third World by simply feeding algae genetically engineered with a vaccine. A study published on Monday demonstrated that the answer is “not yet.” However, the same method may work as a vaccine against a [...]
California algae research project utilizes powerful harvesting technology
Tweet In California, an algae research project conducted by the University of California and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has utilized a harvest system which processes up to 9000 gallons of algae-laden water per minute at a 95% capture rate, yielding up to 20% algae concentrations. The project utilizes World Water Works’ Algae Harvesting Technology [...]
Sandia Lab developing technology to help algae ponds recover from crashes
Tweet In New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories is developing a suite of complementary technologies to help the emerging algae industry detect and quickly recover from algal pond crashes, an obstacle to large-scale algae cultivation for future biofuels. Because of the way algae is grown and produced in most algal ponds, they are prone to attack [...]
