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Algae Biofuel Breakthrough Hinges On Common Bacteria

  One of the key factors standing between algae biofuel and the real world of market-competitive energy is something that has a lot in common with the common cold, and that is bacteria. The tiny little buggers can interfere with an efficient … Continue reading

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City OKs Daphne Utilities lease with algae biofuel, wastewater treatment company

By Marc D. Anderson | manderson@al.com Press-Register on November 19, 2012 at 10:11 PM, updated November 19, 2012 at 10:23 PM Brought to you by North of Daphne’s Bayfront Park pier is the proposed site for an algae-based biofuel and … Continue reading

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The EROI of algae biofuels (part II): just add wastewater and … get a little …

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Two-year NASA project finds that sea-based, floating algae bioreactors “may be …

In California, the heads of a two-year NASA project aimed at cultivating microalgae from wastewater, using floating photobioreactors have reported that “algal productivity in prototype floating photobioreactors using secondary wastewater effluent ranged from 4 to nearly 30 g biomass m2 … Continue reading

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Tulare plant exploring algae for jet fuel

Details Published on 08/28/2012 – 9:29 am Written by Ben Keller Tubs hold algae that are made using CO2 and other gases generated by fuel cells in Tulare. The oil in the algae can be made into low emitting jet … Continue reading

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KU researcher fuels new use of wastewater

TOPEKA, Kan. — A University of Kansas researcher wants wastewater to be less so by using it to manufacture biofuel. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that assistant professor Belinda Sturm grows algae in nitrogen- and phosphorus-laden Lawrence wastewater that ordinarily is … Continue reading

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Micro Organism: Maximum Biogas

Algae Feature Tom Freyberg looks at the European funded All-Gas project that aims to treat wastewater solids with a combination of anaerobic digestion and algae to produce liquid biofuels in addition to biogas. First generation biofuels from crops never really … Continue reading

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A green future: NASA’s $10 million project explores algae of as fuel …

Click photo to enlarge SANTA CRUZ – Near the end of a line of windswept buildings, on Santa Cruz’s Westside, sits a lab that may hold the key to everything from galactic space travel to peace in the Middle East. … Continue reading

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Algae cultivation could boost UK industry

Algae cultivation could boost UK industry 15 May 2012, by Marion O’Sullivan UK companies could cash in on the massive opportunities available from producing biofuels and other products from cultivated algae, say scientists. Seaweed as biofuel. There is an increasing … Continue reading

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Algae Biofuel Update

NASA recently unveiled new research that could change the face of biofuel production. The culmination of the research is a new method of growing algae called the Offshore Membrane Enclosure for Growing Algae (OMEGA). What the system does is allow … Continue reading

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