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One Harvard student has a creative approach to renewable energy, using resources from the island where she grew up, oceans away.

The culprit, the researchers say, is fertilizer. Growing algae in open ponds is akin to producing them in a shallow swimming pool, [lead researcher Andres] Clarens said, so all of the nutrients -- ...

Last year, forbes denounced seaweed-based biofuel across the board in a strongly titled article called “An Algal Biofuel Obituary”. The article was a send-up of the many biofuel startups that had made ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded Montana State University and Utah State University a three-year, $900,000 grant to study the oil produced by algae, which could be a ...

Slimy green algae may be an answer to the global oil crisis. With a renewed interest in converting algae into biofuel, researchers are studying ways to cut costs and improve conditions for growing ...

The briefing explains that “unlike waste lipids, algae are not constrained by food systems, land availability, or fragmented supply chains”. Instead, it describes microalgae as a biofuel feedstock ...

Oilprice has been reporting on the long, drawn-out death of the dream of algal biofuel for years. A field once crowded with startups and hyperbolic promises of industry disruption and energy ...

Well-known but still young biofuel company Sapphire Energy has more than doubled its funding to more than $100 million for its “green crude,” a fuel it says will mimic the best characteristics of the ...

Biofuel produced from algae, essentially pond scum, has long titillated green energy boosters as a potential big time player in the U.S. renewable fuels portfolio. Now, a-first-of-its-kind look at ...

Oilprice has been reporting on the long, drawn-out death of the dream of algal biofuel for years. A field once crowded with startups and hyperbolic promises of industry disruption and energy ...