Feb
22
Is Algae Fuel Production So Far Away?
February 22, 2011 | 13 Comments
Biofuels Digest ran a long article last week covering most if not all the leaders in algae to fuel production. The lead for the article is the government of Mexico has announced it will support project work to yield 1% of the country’s jet fuel by 2015. OriginOil is the first to sign up. Origin’s [...]
Jan
28
A Fresh and Salt Water Algae Discovered
January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
Researchers of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), along with collaborators at Dalhousie University and the Natural History Museum (NHM), London have discovered an entirely new group of algae living in a wide variety of marine and freshwater environments by following up on an unexpected DNA sequence listed in a research paper from the [...]
Dec
13
A Lithium Ion 3-D Battery Breakthrough
December 13, 2010 | 6 Comments
Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and of Chemistry at Rice University said, “In a battery, you have two electrodes separated by a thick barrier, The challenge is to bring everything into close proximity so this electrochemistry becomes much more efficient.” That is exactly a [...]
Dec
6
The Biomass Algae Research Target Is Shifting to Seaweed
December 6, 2010 | 5 Comments
It’s coming – research interest is moving toward seaweed from algae. For algae enthusiasts, keep in mind that technically speaking common algae is micro algae and seaweed is macro algae. They both offer a huge advantage to other plants in line for fuel production. These two life forms offer efficiency; they grow without using energy [...]
Nov
16
A Baking Soda Solution for Algae Growth
November 16, 2010 | 3 Comments
A Montana State University team of interdisciplinary researchers has discovered that baking soda, the common name for sodium bicarbonate, can dramatically increase algae’s production of the key oil precursors for biodiesel and biojet fuels. That’s right, the household chemical that causes cookies to rise in the oven, calms upset stomachs and removes odors from refrigerators [...]
May
4
Algae Straight to Crude Oil
May 4, 2010 | 11 Comments
University of Michigan professors are heating and squishing algae in a pressure-cooker that fast-forwards the crude oil making process from millennia to just minutes. It doesn’t have to be algae it could be any wet biomass. Phillip Savage, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the U-M Department of Chemical Engineering is principal investigator on the [...]
Feb
22
DARPA Cracks the Oil Out of Algae
February 22, 2010 | 14 Comments
Late last week saw Suzanne Goldenberg return from her visit with the new special assistant for energy at DARPA, Barbara McQuiston with news DARPA has solved the algae oil production problem. If you saw the original piece at The Guardian, my contact at Darpa is saying it’s accurate other than the timeline. DARPA expects to [...]
Nov
23
Algae That Produces Hydrogen Gas
November 23, 2009 | 6 Comments
Barry Bruce, a professor of biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology leads a team at UT Knoxville that has found the inner machinery of photosynthesis can be isolated from certain algae and, when coupled with a platinum catalyst, is able to produce a steady supply of hydrogen when exposed to light. So far researchers have [...]
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