A.I.M. Interview: CleanTECH San Diego’s Lisa Bicker
For a local market with over 30 companies, 400+ direct jobs, $56 million in direct economic activity and $108 million in total economic activity annually being generated by algal development…
Pennsylvania Pursues Alternative Fuel JV
The Raytheon Co., Accelergy Corp. of Houston, TX, and A2BE Carbon Capture LLC/Algae at Work, of Boulder, CO have formed a joint venture to develop a technology to gasify algae mixed with coal and/or coal waste into a cleaner…
AIM Interview: Senator Tom Udall
New Mexico Senator Tom Udall has on his desk a couple of objects he likes to share with young student leaders who tour the Senate offices in Washington, D.C. He says to them, “I want to show you what your future is about,” and then hands them a little solar panel…
Leveling the Playing Field for Algae
As an oilman, I’ve been talking about America’s energy future with folks for more than 30 years. And I’ve continued that conversation since I was sworn into Congress. But the more people I talked to about solutions for America’s energy future…
AIM Interview: ABO’s Mary Rosenthal
Executive Director of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) for most of the past year, Mary Rosenthal, comes from a background in high-level sales, marketing and communications with several Fortune 500 companies in the food industry…
AIM Interview: NAA’s Barry Cohen
Barry Cohen, Executive Director and Founder of the National Algae Association, has been involved in the lending community since the early 1980s, working with middle-market companies to secure working capital, inventory, equipment and construction loans…
AIM Interview: Riggs Eckelberry (Part 3)
We are going to see a massive transfer of energy production from petroleum to algae, which is a huge paradigm shift from a few big producers to everybody being a producer, and that paradigm shift will…
AIM Interview: OriginOil’s Riggs Eckelberry Interview (Part 2)
Pure madness! My brother and co-founder, Nicholas, really had a dream to get into environmental technologies in the early 90s, and it wasn’t ready to happen. I was in high tech and just got carried…
AIM Interview: OriginOil’s Riggs Eckelberry Interview (Part 1)
If there is a poster boy for algae’s fabulous future, it’s currently Riggs Eckelberry. Coming from a strong executive background guiding dotcoms through the early internet years, Riggs established OriginOil…
AIM Interview: BioCentric Energy’s Dennis Fisher
Coming from an engineering and contractor background, Dennis Fisher first stepped into the algae world when some friends asked him to design a biodiesel and ethanol plant in Caruthersville…
AIM Interview: Sapphire Energy’s Tim Zenk
Sapphire Energy began in 2007 with a debate between three friends: entrepreneur and bioengineer Jason Pyle; Kristina Burow, a chemist turned venture capitalist; and Nathaniel David, a biologist and serial company…
AIM Interview: Doug Lynn
The Center for Excellence in Hazardous Materials Management, aka CEHMM, was established in May of 2004 as a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to reducing the impact of hazardous materials on the environment. With Executive Director Doug Lynn at the helm…
Phyco 160 Project
Phyco BioSciences, Inc., of Phoenix, AZ, has contracted with Phoenix-based XL Renewables, Inc. to develop a 160-acre algae biomass project in Arizona. The project is expected to break ground in February 2010 subject to final capitalization. The Project will include four 40-acre fields that produce…
Seambiotic and Chinese Power Company
Seambiotic, an Israeli-based leader in the development and production of marine microalgae for the nutraceuticals and biofuel industries using flue gas from electric power plants, has announced that it has signed a License Agreement and a Joint…
