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From The Guardian: The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same cost as its fossil-fuel equivalent. The claim, which comes from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) that helped to develop the internet and satellite navigation systems, has [...] From Biofuels Digest: In Missouri, a research team at the Missouri University of Science and Technology is investigating the use of abandoned mines for algal fuel production. The group said that, with added LED lights, they can avoid the contamination and evaporation problems that affect open pond raceway systems. The team says they are shifting the infrastructure [...] From Business First: Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond will receive $220,000 in state and local grants to help further research into algae-based biofuel production. The Kentucky Agricultural Development Board approved Eastern Kentucky University for $200,000 in state agricultural development funds for the project. Clark and Madison counties each will contribute $10,000 in grant funding, according to [...] From Biofuels International: The state of Massachusetts has shocked producers of second- and third-generation biodiesel produced from non-food feedstocks by banning their product from being counted as biodiesel when the state introduces its biodiesel mandate in 2011. Massachusetts is to become one of the first US states to introduce a biodiesel mandate. From 1 July 2011, [...] From the Wall Street Journal: Exxon’s $600 million deal with Synthetic Genomics to brew fuel from algae could mark a coming of age for alternative fuels. As human genome mapper Craig Venter, now the chief executive of SGI said, turning algae into biofuel simply won’t happen without Big Oil’s deep pockets. He said it was the biggest [...] From Biomass Magazine: Researchers at two centers in St. Louis are gearing up to launch five-year research programs on algae, backed by U.S. DOE grants. The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center received $15 million and Washington University $20 million from the DOE’s fund for Energy Frontier Research Centers. A total of 46 centers were funded from [...] From BiofuelsDigest: Biofuels Digest is projecting that algal biofuels capacity will reach 1 billion gallons by 2014, based on analysis of price and capacity projections for 2009-14 from leading companies in the field. Algae producers are targeting to reach a $1.30 wholesale cost and 1.62 billion gallons in capacity by 2014. Read more here. From NREL: After languishing for more than a decade, NREL’s From the National Algae Association: Due to the high cost of oil, commercializing the |
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