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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the investment of up to $24 million for three research groups to tackle key hurdles in the commercialization of algae-based biofuels This is welcome news. But really, if we want a renewable…
OriginOil claims to have a new, highly efficient method to create biofuel algae that is up to 20x more efficient. It uses way less acreage and water than previous methods. Someone, someday will figure out how to do algae biofuel…
In stunning news, DARPA says their cost per gallon for jet fuel from alage is “headed towards $1 a gallon.” Wow. The US Air Force wants its entire fleet of jet fighters and transport aircraft to test-fly a 50-50 blend…
Reader Jayson Anders comments to our post, The big boys of industry move into next-generation algae fuels‘ There are many people developing open source algae reactors and processing info on the web. Check out algaegeek.com as a great example.
The new technology uses tiny nanoparticles to absorb free fatty acids from living microalgae. This new process allows algae to continue growing rather than killing them to produce the biofuel.