Explore the hidden costs of algae biofuel production and discover why it may not be the green solution we hoped. Algal Biomass Association. The culprit, the researchers say, is fertilizer. Growing ...

Modern biofuels have been touted as a greener alternative to petrol and diesel since the early 1900s. It seems like a good idea on paper, and they do work – but their use and production doesn’t come ...

Colorado Mountain College’s Rifle campus strives to stay on the forefront of leading integrated technologies. Dr. Dennis Zhang is one example of the outstanding faculty bringing this leading ...

Though there is much mention of the promise of algal biofuels and word of their commercial development, it seems timely to view what precisely has been achieved in terms of significant algal biofuel ...

Researchers have developed a method for greatly enhancing biofuel production in tiny marine algae. Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have developed a method for ...

The state of Pernambuco in Brazil’s northeast is going to become home to the country’s first algal biomass plant, thanks to an agreement between See Algae Technology (SAT), an Austrian developer of ...

April 8, 2009 While there are plenty of alternative fuel prospects floating around, a key factor in the widespread adoption of such fuels is whether or not they are economical. That is why a team of ...

A new report from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) in Berkeley projects that development of cost-competitive algae biofuel production will require much more long-term research, development and ...

This article was originally published in December 2013 on the Energy Realities blog. Algae have all the right ingredients for turning carbon dioxide into biofuel, but the precise recipe still needs to ...

Along with camelina and jatropha, marine algae is a front runner in the search for a renewable feedstock for production of commercial quantities of biofuel. While marine algae produce lipid oils, fat ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Algal biofuels are in trouble. This alternative fuel source could help reduce overall carbon emissions without ...

The U.S. is sitting on top of a fuel goldmine, it seems. Not shale gas or crude oil, but fresh water and suitable land to produce 25 billion gallons of algae-based biofuel--a month's worth of the ...