2Penny <lw_rogers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Hey Folks -
>
> I've been led to understand that the slime one normally
> associates with algae is a refinable variety of petroleum like
> "light sweet crude" and this biofuel can be produced quickly and
> economicly. This sounds almost too good to believe.
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http://media.cleantech.com/1224/algae-biofuel-of-the-future
September 18, 2007
Algae is a promising biofuel feedstock. But it's a long way from
commercial
production in volume.
Learn why, and see who's farthest along.
Algae is one of the most promising feedstocks that industry insiders talk
about for future biofuel production.
The yields of oil from algae are orders of magnitude higher than those for
traditional oilseeds
Algae can be grown in places far from farmlands & forests, minimizing the
damages caused to the eco- and food chain systems, and obviating the food
vs. fuel dilemma, and
Algae can be grown in sewages and next to power-plant smokestacks where
they digest pollutant and harmful emissions
Yet, despite outrageous claims from certain circles, big technical hurdles
exist to being able to harvest oil from algae in quantities large enough
to
make biodiesel or other fuels from it.
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http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1490/70/
Green Fuel Technologies
http://www.greenfuelonline.com/
just announced they had begun construction of their commercial scale algae
plant while PetroSun announced they'd be taking their pilot algae farm
commercial on April 1st.
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PetroSun's facility, on the other hand, has 1,100 acres of open ponds
growing algae in Texas. Open ponds are cheaper, but it's more difficult to
control which species of algae are growing
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http://www.investinalgaebiodiesel.com/
Algae biodiesel companies leading the industry:
Aquaflow A New Zealand company that expects to be the first company in the
world to economically produce biofuel from wild algae harvested from open-
air environments, to market it, and meet the challenge of increasing
demand.
GreenFuel Technology Corp. Cambridge, Mass. company working with power
plants to build algae producing photobioreactors. Tests show its system
captured about 80% of the CO2 emitted during the day when sunlight is
available.
HR Biopetroleum The Hawaii based company intends to be a designer-builder
of algae biofuels plants and to produce and market renewable fuel
feedstock
and animal nutritional supplemental protein. Partnering with Royal Dutch
Shell in a joint venture called Cellana, they plan to initially build a
small research plant but hope to move to a full-scale commercial plant of
20,000 hectares.
LiveFuels The Menlo Park, CA research company describes itself as a min-
manhattan project with a national alliance of labs and scientists
dedicated
to transforming algae into biocrude by the year 2010. Their strategy
involves developing algae that will thrive in open ponds.
Imperium Renewables The Seatle company that has made a name for itself
from
producing traditional biodiesel, announced that it has dedicated a 5
million-gallon refinery to algae oil. Has established a feedstock
agreement
where Solazyme will supply algal oil.
OTEC A San Francisco bay area firm developing photobioreactors - enclosed
systems that produce algae in layer upon layer of tubes or shallow ponds.
PetroSun PetroSun is a diversified energy company specializing in the
discovery and development of both traditional fossil fuels and renewable
energy resources. Under the terms of a November 2007 agreement,
PetroSun BioFuels will supply Bio-Alternatives fifty percent of its raw
algal oil production from planned algae farms and extraction plants in
Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi up to a maximum of 150 million gallons
per year. PetroSun BioFuels and Bio-Alternatives have agreed to locate the
initial algae farm, extraction plant and biodiesel refinery in Louisiana.
Negotiations have commenced to secure the land and permits that are
required for the respective operations. PetroSun is in the pre-commercial
stage with its algae-to-biofuels production technology. The Company plans
to establish algae farms and algal oil extraction plants in Alabama,
Arizona, Louisiana, Mexico, Brazil and Australia during 2008. The algal
oil
product will be marketed as feedstock to existing biodiesel refiners and
planned company owned refineries. PetroSun is headquartered in Scottsdale,
Arizona with field offices in Shreve****t, Louisiana and Opelika, Alabama.
Solazyme A somewhat secretive San Franciso based biotechnology company
that
apparently has already harvested thousands of gallons of algal oil. They
have engineered more than a dozen specialized strains and ramped up pre-
commercial production. “We can easily make thousands of gallons [of algal
biodiesel] a month,” says Chief Operating Officer Jonathan S. Wolfson.
Solazyme has entered into a biodiesel feedstock development agreement in
which they will generate algal oil for Imperium's biodiesel production
process. Jerry Fiddler, Solazyme's Chairman says, "The technology is much
farther along than most people realize. Our energy future includes algae
which will serve as a biodiesel feedstock of increasing im****tance."
Solix The Solix team of engineers in Fort Collins, CO are working on a
design for a closed algae growth system that is cost competitive with open
systems.
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Biofuel from algae by territory
[edit] Canada
International Energy, Inc [28] (OTCBB: IENI.OB)
[edit] Oceania
[edit] New Zealand
Aquaflow Bionomic Cor****ation (ABC). [29]: Boeing and Air New Zealand
announced a joint project with Aquaflow Bionomic to develop algae jet
fuel.
[30]
[edit] USA
There are diverse companies developing biofuels from algae:
Aurora BioFuels [31]
Blue Marble Energy [32]
Diversified Energy Cor****ation. [33]
Global Green Solutions [34]
GreenerBioEnergy [35]
GreenFuel Technologies Cor****ation
Imperium Renewables [36], former Seattle Biodiesel, LLC.
Inventure Chemical [37]
Kai BioEnergy Corp. [38]
Live Fuels, Inc. [39]
PetroSun and Algae BioFuels Inc., wholly-owned subsidiary. [40]
Solazyme, Inc. [41]
Shell [42] and HR BioPetroleum [43]
Solix Biofuels [44]
Virgin Green Fund
Algoil Industries, Inc.
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http://gas2.org/2008/02/19/algae-biofuel-to-be-used-in-virgin-atlantic-747-
test-flight/
Virgin Atlantic Airways will use a 20% blend of algae-derived biofuel in a
demonstration flight later this month. The fuel will be fed to one engine
through an independent system in order not to mix with the fuel going to
the other three engines.
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Airbus used a gas to liquid fuel, derived from natural gas, in its flight
from Filton, UK to Toulouse, France in mid January.
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