Directory:Algae for Oil

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Directory of technologies and resources related to obtaining oil from algae.

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  Biodiesel from Algae / CO2 Sequestration > Using Algae to Capture Carbon and Produce Biodiesel and Food - A2BE Carbon Capture is developing bio-secure, scalable, climate adaptive, and highly cost-effective technology for producing valuable fuel and food from CO2 using algal photosynthesis and bio-harvesting in a system they call Algae@Work. (PESWiki; May 23, 2008)
  

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  Making Algae Biodiesel at Home - Downloadable 650-page book provides detailed instructions on how to sustainably produce clean oil from algae -- in your back yard -- enough to supply your transportation and home power needs. This is not a simple, afternoon venture, but a serious, long-term commitment.
  

Technologies

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  OriginOil Pursuing Cost-Effective, Environmentally-Friendly Petrol from Algae - OriginOil, Inc. is developing a breakthrough technology that will transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum. The technology will produce "new oil" from algae, through a cost-effective, high-speed manufacturing process. (PESWiki; Oct. 14, 2008)
  

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  Valcent Vertigro Algae Farms Making Biodeisel - Valcent has developed a high density vertical bio-reactor for the mass production of oil bearing algae while removing large quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. This new bio-reactor is tailored to grow a species of algae that yields a large volume of high grade vegetable oil, suitable for blending with diesel to create a bio-diesel fuel. (PESWiki; Sept 29, 2008)
  

• Turning algae into ethanol, and gold - Algenol Biofuels licensed deal for an $850 million project with a way to inexpensively bring third-generation biofuels to industrial scale with a seawater-based process that can generate up to a billion gallons of algal ethanol per year from a facility in Mexico. (CleanTech; June 11, 2008)
  

• Biotech pros press algae into biodiesel production - Aurora Biofuel, started by University of California at Berkeley students, has a process that it says can create biodiesel at yields that are 125 times higher and have 50 percent lower costs than today's production methods.
  

• Sapphire Energy turns algae into 'green crude' for fuel - Sapphire Energy uses algae, sunlight, carbon dioxide and non-potable water to make "green crude" that it contends is chemically equivalent to the light, sweet crude oil. They call it "the world's first renewable gasoline". (Los Angeles Times; May 29, 2008)
  

• Circle Biodiesel & Ethanol Corporation: Clean energy company specializing in renewable energy and manufacturing and consulting for algae biodiesel and algae biofuel processors for algae oil, biodiesel processors, jatropha oil, bioethanol, ethanol stills and methane digesters for the production of methane biogas.
  

In the News

• Fuel From Pond Scum - Update - PGE and renewable energy developer Columbia Energy Partners announced that they had begun a pilot project for the algae venture at the utility's Boardman facility in Morrow County, OR. (Newshoggers; Sept. 26, 2008)

• Maui to Get Algae Facility for Biodiesel - Recognizing the potential for algae as an energy crop, a Hawaiian conglomerate has come together to pursue the joint development of a commercial-scale microalgae facility on Maui to produce lipid oil for conversion to biodiesel and other products, such as animal feed. (CleanTechnica; July 15, 2008)
  

• Scum Power - Today, the cheapest algae production costs $5,000 per ton, says F. Blaine Metting, a researcher at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy facility in Richland, Wash. Still, he believes that if the crude oil stays at its current lofty price, algae-based oil could be competitively priced in five years if engineers and scientists can improve algae productivity per acre. (Video) (Wall Street Journal; June 30, 2008)
  

Directories

• National Algae Association - The Next Biofuel
• Oilgae

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• Directory:Biodiesel from Algae Oil
• Videos:Algae as Fuel
• Directory:Algae
• Directory:Solar Hydrogen
• Directory:Hydrogen from Water
• Directory:Non-Fossil Oil
• Directory:Solar

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