B.A.L. Development Converts Seaweed to Renewable Fuels
A team of scientists from Bio Architecture Lab (B.A.L.), has developed technology that helps to further enable the wide-scale use of macroalgae as a feedstock for advanced biofuels and renewable chemical…
Dr. Thomas Ulrich Joins OriginOil’s Board of Advisors
OriginOil, Inc. has announced the appointment of Dr. Thomas H. Ulrich to its Board of Advisors. Dr. Ulrich was most recently an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Advisory Scientist and worked closely with OriginOil…
WMU Team Extracting Bioalcohols from Algae
Ursula Zerilli reports in the Kalamazoo Gazette that Western Michigan University’s Bronco Biodiesel, a team created by WMU chemistry faculty members John Miller and Steve Bertman, is extracting bioalcohols…
$2.2 Million University Grant for Algae Research
A recent $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy is allowing Washington University, in St. Louis, MO, to take part in a collaborative study on fuel-generating bacteria, according to Dili Chen…
Algenol Breaks Ground on Pilot Facility
Ft. Myers, Florida-based Algenol Biofuels Inc. has announced that it has broken ground on the construction of its pilot-scale integrated bio-refinery. This production facility will be the first large-scale…
OriginOil to Collaborate with DOE on Algae Feedstock Standard
OriginOil, Inc. has announced it will begin to work with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to develop standards for converting biomass, including algae, into biofuels and other…
Clean Energy Competition Funding Opportunity
On July 21, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $2 million in available funding for a national, university-based clean energy business challenge. This nationwide initiative will create a network…
DOE Releases “Billion-Ton” Bioenergy Study
The U.S. Department of Energy has released a report—2011 U.S. Billion-Ton Update: Biomass Supply for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry—detailing U.S. biomass feedstock potential nationwide…
DOE to Host Biomass Program Peer Review
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Biomass Program will host its biennial Program Peer Review on June 27 and 28, 2011, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Crystal City, Virginia. The Program Peer Review…
DOE’s Algae R&D Peer Review Meeting Announced
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Biomass Program will be conducting a detailed biennial peer review meeting of its Algae R&D Activities on April 7-8…
U.S. DOE
Joyce Yang, Technology Manager at U.S. Department of Energy talks to Tyler Suiters about the College of William & Mary’s algal fuel research program and the state of that science as well…
USDA Rates Feedstocks for Biofuels
From Cole Gustafson, Biofuels Economist at NDSU Extension Service comes a story in the Western Farm Press that a US Department of Agriculture-funded study is developing new pricing…
AIM Interview: Algaeventure System’s Ross Youngs
On March 10, 2009, Algaeventure Systems, Inc. (AVS) announced a technological breakthrough for one of algae’s major road blocks, getting algae out of solution — harvest and dewatering. In the recently…
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…
