It turns out that some of the hundreds of thousands ... algae had high oil content the emphasis shifted to growing algae to produce biodiesel. Because of their extremely fast growth rates and ...

Like the nascent hydrogen economy, the biodiesel industry is trying to figure out the best way to move forward ... in the coming decades is, of course, algae. GreenFuel just sent its algae ...

Algae biofuel startup Solix ... It also takes energy to dry out the biomass, and Solix uses far less water than other companies (see Cutting the Cost of Making Algae by 90%).

If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the ... and we can dream of cellulosic ethanol technologies or algae-brewed biodiesel that leave old-fashioned corn-based ethanol in the ...

Algae at least can be grown, with sufficient engineering, on a large scale that does not require prime crop land in competition with growing food crops (as rules out conventional biofuel ...

PetroAlgae, Bionavitas, and others bet that algae will replace soy as a feedstock for biodiesel. The question is which, out of many companies, will develop a cost-effective technology first.

“Algae will take out all the ammonia—99 percent—88 percent of the nitrate ... plant and scale up production to as much as 1,000 gallons of wastewater. Northern Biodiesel, located in Wayne County, will ...

The algae carrying out that fermentation come from the genus ... bunker fuel in shipping or kerosene in airplanes. For that, a liquid biofuel may prove the only alternative—and the company ...

The team then compared these with similar values from algae’s biofuel peers — corn ... a hole in the ground and getting fuel to come out as a liquid, it is not going to easy.” ...

Much more investment in money and time is needed for algae biofuel to become viable, even on an extended timeline out to mid-century. While big players like Shell and Chevron have abandoned the ...

See All Key Ideas The algae biofuel industry has seen some ups and downs in 2023, with one major corporate player pulling out of the race to make a viable sustainable product, even as several U.S ...