National Algae Association Announces that Algae is No Longer a Research Project. Collaborative Commercial Algae Production Testing Is Well Under Way at the new NAA Testing Center - PR11857068 - http://www.prlog.org/11857068-national-algae-association-announces-that-algae-is-no-longer-research-project.html

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This young genius has cracked the oil extraction process as part of a science fair project and now owns a provisional patent for his work. Watch this video on Kare 11 as they document his success!

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Update on my local wild filamentous algae. 
I tried to harvest some local wild algae a week or so ago. My attempt was premature as the algae has not matured enough yet to get much algae.
I find that the old growth that went thru the winter freeze cycle is still there, but is rotting and of no use. 
It has broken loose from the bottom and is floating about the ponds and lakes. It has a thin veneer of bright green new growth on top that is misleading; giving the illusion that the entire matts of algae are harvestable,…

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I am proposing a new solution to the algae biofuel industry. Using electrical stimulation, I have created biodiesel from algae for $0.96/gallon. Come view this presentation of my project

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During a recent visit to Solazyme, a renewable algae oil company, I had a mid-day snack of crackers, vanilla-tinged milk, pretzels with a honey mustard sauce, ice cream, and a chocolate chip cookie. All of it contained algae, and all of it had significantly fewer calories, fat, and cholesterol than more traditional counterparts. For the record: all of the food items were just as good, and in some cases better, than the same foods containing regular ingredients.

Solazyme first realized that it was destined for more than just biofuel production while perfecting its algae oil-making process.

The basic premise is simple. Feed sugars (sugar cane, switchgrass, etc.) to algae, and the algae make oil. Solazyme tailors the oil profiles for different applications.

Solazyme has already found success in the cosmetics industry with its Algenist line of beauty products (tagline: "biotechnology from San Francisco), which rely on "alguronic acid," a compound produced by microalgae that can protect algae--and incidentally, human skin--from the environment. Since launching less than a year ago, Algenist products have become best-sellers at Sephora stores across the country.

My mid-day snack came courtesy of Solazyme Roquette Nutritionals, a joint venture between Solazyme and Roquette, a company that converts vegetables into raw materials for the food industry. Solazyme’s algae-derived flour, which has a similar lipid profile to olive oil, can be used to create strikingly tasty foods.

The Almagin flour, a yellowish powder containing algae oil, can go anywhere butter, eggs, and oil are used.

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679438/inside-the-solazyme-kitchen-where-algae-ice-cream-tastes-good

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Through extensive testing I've performed over the last 2 months, I've concluded that the method of Low Energy Voltaic Impulse(LEVI) destroys specific protein channels along the cell wall membrane, allowing for lipid bodies (and some cytoplasmic fluids) to be secreted by the cell. By pumping this device with 120 gallons of water I was able to produce 4.35 Liters of lipid bodies which converted to 4.1 Liters of diesel fuel via transesterification. To run down 2 D cell batteries, I needed to perform this test 82 times producing just over 90 gallons of diesel fuel, and the lowest cost fuel conversion price of $0.03

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Hi folks, I am doing fine, spent today in our Iowa State Capital talking to legislators, and staff members of the governor and others. 
Our Iowa Governor Branstad asked me to present my plan to our Iowa State Fair Board to power the entire fair with the waste streams coming from the fair. 
Our fair runs for 11 days each fall, has thousands of head of various livestock in for exhibit and judging, and we have over a million visitors each year. That makes a lot of animal manure and garbage. We also spend a lot of money on electricity…

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Algae Bioreactor with solar panel system

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A fledgling IIT-Madras incubated start-up, Sea6Energy, has signed a deal with the Danish company Novozymes, one of the world’s largest industrial biotech companies, to jointly develop a process for producing biofuels from seaweeds.

A routine thing in the West you’d say, where large companies tap the start-up innovation pool, but it’s still a rare event in India. The alliance, where each brings its own funds, will use enzymes to convert seaweed-based carbohydrates to sugar, which is then fermented to produce ethanol for fuel, fine chemicals, proteins for food, and fertilizers for plants.

Novozymes’ India arm will look for new enzymes, develop, and manufacture them for the conversion; Sea6Energy, which has so far developed an offshore seaweed farming system (based on marine plastics polymer), will continue to develop its cultivation technology.


http://forbesindia.com/blog/technology/bold-and-beautiful-turning-seaweed-into-biofuels/

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CottageCountryNow Article: More algal blooms in Ontario's lakes

- http://www.cottagecountrynow.ca/community/northmuskoka/article/1281343

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This is algae-diesel that came from 200 gallons of water in 4 days!

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http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Biofuels/New-Technique-Discovered-to-Help-Harvest-Algae.html

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The main biofuel in the United States is ethanol made by fermenting corn. But the process is inefficient, requiring a lot of land, energy, water, and fertilizer. Turning food crops into fuels may also cause food prices to increase. And corn-based ethanol only reduces greenhouse-gas emissions by a relatively modest amount over gasoline.

The ultimate goal is to use plant waste or dedicated energy crops—plants like switchgrass that grow easily and quickly. Biofuels from these sources generate significantly less greenhouse gases than gasoline. But breaking down cellulose— the tough molecular chain that forms a plant’s cell walls—into sugars that can be fermented is complicated and costly.

Read More: http://climate.nasa.gov/EnergyInnovations/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowEnergy

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It's very relevant to show numerous graphics in the description of how I go about lipid production through electrical impulsing so I have a link to my website where I've posted a blog about this process.

To view the page, Click on "Blog" in the top right and Select "LIPID VACUOLE FUSION AND L.E.V.I."

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A very intriguing video of an algae application aimed at reducing co2 and NOx from power plant exhaust with algae. The algae grows thickly and rapidly producing high oil yields for fuel production

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This model I made uses old pop cans painted black to dry algae. Filtered algae sludge is fills the pop cans. The pop cans then sit out in the sun for 3 hours, evaporating out the water in the algae to an 8%water content. The dry meal can be used for composters, fertilizer and diesel fuel production. (Every dry kilogram of algae has sequestered 2.2 kilograms of CO2)

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I'm creating an environmental education program at an intercity school called DIVINE Institute in St Paul, Minnesota to reach at risk students. The program will feature a $12,000 green roof equipped with solar panels, algae photo-bioreactors, and solar heating for the building. So far, I have raised $8,000 in grant funding!

I'm looking for people interested in donating to this non-profit effort or people interested in contributing information you would like included into the curriculum, so I would love to here from you all!

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Researchers engineer microbe to make seaweed a cost-effective source of renewable fuel - http://m.gizmag.com/article/21168/?utm_source=Gizmag Subscribers

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The man who first sequenced the human genome and designed the first synthetic cell explains why simple algae—and some genetic engineering—may hold the key to our future - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pond-scum-to-the-rescue

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