For the first time ever you can fill your tank with algae-derived biofuel. Today in Redwood City Propel Fuels announced they were offering algal biodiesel from Solazyme, a renewable oil and bioproducts company, at retail pumps for consumer purchase. Moving the algae industry from laboratories and demonstrations to real world roads is a major milestone …
Jim Lane’s Biofuels Digest is out with this year’s list of the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy and algae companies are all over it, including 5 of the Top 15, and the number 1 hottest company – Solazyme. In the past 12 months there has been a rush of new algal products, demonstrations and technology milestones that …
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The record- breaking algae-fueled motorcycle from Below The Surface (BTS) – Driving Innovation’s racing team will be joined by a hydrogen-fueled desert truck in the Baja 1000 off-road race next month. This will be the first such racing team operating entirely on renewable fuels and we are glad to see them using algae-derived biofuels to …
Good news for the practice of using algae to produce fuel and other products. A report released today by the National Research Council examines the key sustainability issues related to scaling the algae industry. The NRC correctly examined issues such as water, land-use, greenhouse gases and other concerns around sustainability and concluded: “The committee does not consider …
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Those that attended the 2012 Algae Biomass Summit in Denver last month may have seen the great photos of European algae projects underway in almost every OECD country (including Iceland!) and come away thinking U.S. efforts shouldn’t be complacent in light of so much activity overseas. Last week the European Commission stepped up its game …