LS9's Genetics Breakthrough—Will it Produce Biofuels at Scale?
Greentech Media (blog)
To solve this mystery, the LS9 team looked into the genomes of bacteria that produce alkanes in nature -- cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae. ...

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Coming To America!
Inside Futures
... only 2.5 million acres of algae (an area approximately 70 percent the size of Connecticut). Three billion gallons of biodiesel represent about 8 percent ...

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As Congress Delays the Energy Debate, Should Algae Green Up its Pitch?
Green Energy News
Microalgae grow significantly faster, doubling in a matter of days, than do land crops used to make biodiesel, and oil per acre production is more than 30 ...

NASA researchers examining greener fuels
WKSU News
That's still way and above ethanol production, better than biodiesel production." Pimentel's group isn't the only one studying algae biomass jet fuel. ...

Researchers work to fill biofuel gap
Minnesota Daily
In the same way safflower, soybean, canola or other oils typically used in cooking can be converted to biodiesel, algae produces oils that can be used for ...

Hawaii getting carbon dioxide conversion project
BusinessWeek
It will design, build and operate a CO2-to-algae-to-biofuels facility in Central Oahu. Officials say Hawaiian Electric Co. will qualify the biocrude for ...
U.S. Invests $106 Million To Reduce CO2 Emissions, Mitigate Climate ChangeGov Monitor

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Exploring Algae as Fuel
New York Times (blog)
... used to make biodiesel. Moreover, algae might be grown on arid land and brackish water, so that fuel production would not compete with food production. ...
Biosphere imbalance: should we worry about engineering algae for biofuels?SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Algae - the Fuel of the FutureSoftpedia

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ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics Inc. Advance Algae Biofuels Program with New ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"This is an important day in the early stages of our development program as we test the hypothesis that algae biofuels could become commercially viable and ...

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College of William and Mary Launches Algae Biodiesel Project
HeatingOil.com (blog)
The W&M project is just the latest of scores of examples of turning algae into biodiesel, a clean-burning, renewable alternative to petroleum-based diesel ...
William & Mary Turns Fish Killer Into BiodieselDomestic Fuel

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Va. college turning algae into fuel
Washington Post (blog)
Scientists and students at the College of William and Mary are turning fish-killing algae into biodiesel fuel that can power cars, airplanes and other ...

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