To Wash Hands of Palm Oil Unilever Embraces Algae

Consumer-Goods Maker Invests in California’s Solazyme to Avoid Environmental Concerns Associated with Palm Oil The Wall Street Journal BY PAUL SONNE, LONDON—As food and consumer-goods companies face problems obtaining the key ingredient palm oil without damaging the environment, Unilever is betting on a promising low-life alternative: algae.

Arizona set to become center for algae-based, biofuel industry

Clean, green energy source could replace fossil fuels by William Hermann – Aug. 27, 2010 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic Arizonans have cleaned algae from cattle tanks, swimming pools and fish tanks for decades. Now, Arizona researchers are developing algae as a promising 21st-century alternative fuel to power cars, trucks and planes and propel the …

A New Start

Ten years after NREL’s Aquatic Species Program was shut down, a similar initiative began and now is thriving in its algae research, which includes the evaluation of CO2 recycling.