PetroAlgae, Bionavitas, and others bet that algae will replace soy as a feedstock for biodiesel. The question is which, out of many companies, will develop a cost-effective technology first. Martin ...

SEQUIM, Wash. - A dozen glass cylinders containing a potential payload of bright green algae are exposed to hundreds of multi-colored lights, which provide all of sunlight's natural hues. The tiny ...

May 25—While everyone else was busy finishing their end-of-semester tests at Newton High School, senior Kallie Van Kley spent her last day making biofuel. Dressed in a white lab coat and donning thick ...

Instead of going in the trash or, perhaps, a compost heap, a new study proposes that used coffee grounds could help feed biodiesel-producing algae. Published in the journal Renewable and Sustainable ...

Algal cultivation is an effective way to produce biomass, a renewable energy source that can be directly converted into biofuel—a fuel source that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The current ...

SAN NICOLAS, Argentina (Reuters) - An Argentine company opened Friday the country's first factory to make biodiesel from algae, hoping to use pond scum as a replacement for soy in making biodiesel as ...

After advertising its efforts to produce environmentally friendly fuels from algae for over a decade, Exxon Mobil is now quietly walking away from its most heavily publicized climate solution. Exxon ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Industrial-scale production of bioenergy from algae, or seaweeds, can be expected in 10 to 15 years, helping Europe to reach its green energy targets, the top official at a newly ...

There may not be peanuts and pretzels anymore on airplanes, but someday there may be algae oil. Solazyme - a South San Francisco startup focused on producing oil from algae - said Tuesday that it had ...

Scientists at a government lab in New Mexico have created what appear to be magnetic algae, a breakthrough that could lower the cost of harvesting biofuels from the microscopic plants. The trick ...