NAA Assesses Progress and Goals for 2012
Many thanks to Harvel, Georg Fischer, Visipak, Yokogawa, YSL, Creative Lightings, Bailiff Enterprises and TSL Ventures for their generous donations of equipment for testing and benchmarking purposes…
AIM interview: Fluid Imaging Technologies’ CEO Kent Peterson
Kent Peterson, founder and CEO of Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc., has, for the past ten years, watched the algae industry develop through a microscope. His Yarmouth, Maine-based firm builds and markets…
AIM Interview: UC San Diego’s Dr. Stephen Mayfield
Professor Stephen Mayfield is someone you should probably know about if you want to keep up with the key players in San Diego’s burgeoning renewable energies sector. Algae geneticist extraordinaire…
New Solutions Energy to Build 50,000 Gallon PBR Systems
New Solutions Energy Inc. (NSE) of Santa Fe, NM, has announced that it will have its 50,000+ gallon algae growing systems ready for operation in November of this year. Art Anderson, a co-founder of NSE…
High School Teachers Team with University of Kansas Professors for Algae Study
Dodge City High School biology teacher Shannon Ralph said she’ll never look at algae like she used to. Ms. Ralph spent six weeks this summer in Lawrence…
U.Va. Study Finds Complexity in Algae Deployment
A new research study at the University of Virginia shows that, while algae-based transportation fuels produce high energy output with minimal land use, their production could come…
Growing Spirulina at Home
The popular image of algae farming is bubbling green columns and white-coated scientists, and seems out of reach for ordinary people. Is the experience of algae farming limited to professionals? A growing network of DIY algae farmers is proving that we can…
On Becoming an Algae Entrepreneur in Australia
My introduction to algaculture began as a young Mining Engineer in Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom. It was fueled by my hobby and passion for raising aquarium fish, the delicate larvae requiring…
SFCC Holds First Algaculture Workshop
The Santa Fe Community College held its first Algaculture Seminar and Workshop on April 9th at its new Sustainable Technology Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico…
The Other Big Issue in Scaling Up: Land Use Permission
Picture this: the CEO of a large algal biomass corporation wants to pursue a new development. The economic difficulties haven’t slowed his company so he decides to build a new biorefinery near a small…
Natural vs. Synthetic Flocculents
Synthetic polymers used in water/wastewater treatment, and in some instances algae flocculation, are made from monomers obtained from the fractional distillation of oilfield hydrocarbons at oil refineries. The problem with these monomers…
LakeMaster Building Algae-to-Biofuel System from Coal-Fired Power Plants
LakeMaster Corporation, a clean energy technology company headquartered in Rochester, New York, is engaged in the development and commercialization of a proprietary algal to biofuel system that captures…
A.I.M. Interview: OriginOil’s Brian Goodall
When senior executives move from the petroleum industry into the biofuels sector, there is a certain satisfaction that comes with them into this new field. Their satisfaction, because they are…
FAA’s CLEEN Program Envisions Greener Airspace
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced $125 million in new contracts in its latest effort to make air travel cleaner and greener, in support of technologies to reduce commercial jet fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and noise…
Benchtop Flow Cytometry in Algae Research
Flow cytometry is used to measure and analyze multiple physical and chemical characteristics of cells as they flow in a fluid stream, single file, through a beam of light. The technology is employed extensively in life sciences laboratories for counting and sorting cells…
Algal Bioremediation with HydroMentia
A hot buzz term in the emerging algal industry, “algal bioremediation” means using algae to scrub nutrients from water systems as a cost-effective alternative to existing water treatment systems. Mark Zivojnovich, vice president of project…
Honeywell’s UOP Awarded Funding for CO2 Capture
PRNewswire….UOP, a Honeywell company, has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project to demonstrate technology to capture carbon dioxide and produce algae for use in biofuel and energy production…
Aqueus—Farmers Fueling America
“I see algae as a huge idea. I don’t believe any single company is going to do it. It’s too big an idea for that and that’s why we formed Aqueus,” says Michael Basch, organizer of the recently-formed algae development cooperative designed…
Bioalgene’s Stan Barnes — Taming Smokestacks
Stan Barnes, founder and CEO of Bioalgene, is a forward-thinking entrepreneur, management consultant, and merchant banker with broad experience in senior-level management, marketing, and financing for start-up and turnaround enterprises…
USPTO Pilot Program
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will pilot a program to accelerate the examination of certain “green” technology patent applications, according to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. The new initiative will accelerate the examination of certain…
