Solix commences production in Durango trial; Valcent reappears?

In Colorado, Solix Biofuels said that it has commenced production of algal oil at its Coyote Gulch Demonstration Facility, and said that full-scale commercial operation would commence later this summer. The Coyote Gulch farm is on two acres near  Durango, on Southern Ute tribal land. Solix said that it expects to reach a production rate of 3,000 gallons per acre per year by later this year at the facility.

In other algae news, Vorticom announced that it was rehired by Valcent to promote the company’s VertiCrop, Tomorrow Garden and Vertical Algae Technology.  Vorticom said that that Valcent’s Managing Director appears in Antibody Film’s Beanstalk eco-documentary film.

Also, documentary filmmaker Peter Byck has also filmed segments of the upcoming film Carbon Nature at a Valcent facility, but concerns over the viability of the Valcent process may keep the scenes out of the film’s final cut.

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