By the end of 2014, the farm will be capable of producing about 1.5 million gallons of crude oil a year or about 100 barrels of oil per day, according to Sapphire Energy.

Algae at the farm is grown in long ponds called "raceways," and an engine constantly churns water to make sure the algae is exposed to the sunlight. CO2 and a tiny bit of fertilizer is then pumped ...

SPRING GROVE There was much ado here Wednesday over the opening of an experimental farm – the first of its kind in Virginia – that grows a single, if slimy, commodity: algae. Gov. Timot… ...

Aaron Wolf Baum points to an algae farm as he teaches, Sunday March 29, 2010, in Berkeley, Calif. Participants paid $150 each for the seven-hour seminar on growing algae, which is high in protein ...

An Arizona energy company is betting big on algae. PetroSun Biofuels has opened a commercial algae-to-biofuels farm on the Texas Gulf Coast near scenic Harlington Harlingen Texas. The farm is a ...

State seeks to commercialize algae farms. Savannah Martin. February 2, 2012. ... Alga grows at 10 times the rate of alfalfa while using the same amount of water, according to Waller.

In this June 5, 2018 photo, Qualitas Health, Inc., in Imperial, Texas, is cultivating and harvesting algae in ponds in the desert to extract its Omega 3 for human health benefits.

Rather than squeeze algae for its oil, like other companies are proposing, Algenol wants to turn each algae cell into a tiny ethanol factory. Algae farm in Mexico to produce ethanol in 2009 - CNET X ...

A highway overpass is the last place most of us would think to install a farm. But algae, that wonderful little ecological miracle, is different. Since it consumes sunlight and CO2 and spits out ...

BioFields commits $850 million to building an algae farm in the Sonoran Desert that will license technology from Algenol to start producing ethanol next year.

IMPERIAL — Inside a high-tech lab in a modular building in the West Texas desert, a young scientist peered through a microscope at a slide of live and multiplying algae.