Re: algae + biofuels


Mr Ausound -

I appreciate your actually popping open the URLs and looking
at the enclosed info. Okay, you seem to have actually read
the info; am I being naive or does it look like there's a chance
of breaking away from mid-east oil?

I'm not talking "electric cars", but just not (euphemisticly
speaking) "selling rope to someone that wants to hang us";
I don't want to put money in mid-eastern hands.

Does this look like it can get us away from mid-east oil or
am I being naive?

Let's worry about slowing down our energy consumption after
we get this noose from around our necks.

2Penny



ausound wrote:
2Penny <lw_rogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:joOVj.293$l97.52@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:


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 Shreveport, 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 importance."

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 Corporation (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 Corporation. [33] Global Green Solutions [34] GreenerBioEnergy [35] GreenFuel Technologies Corporation 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. ===================================

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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