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"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private U.S. company Algenol plans to make ethanol from a primordial green soup that won't raise food costs compared to other biofuel feedstocks like corn and sugar cane.

The company has signed an $850 million deal with a Mexican company BioFields to grow algae, one of the planet's first life forms, that has been trained to convert water, sunlight, and the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into motor fuel."

"Two companies, Holcim and Aurantia are starting a new project to reuse CO₂. They take the CO₂ produced by a cement plant in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain and "feed" it to microalgae which then turn around and produce biodiesel."

"International Energy, Inc. announced this week that it has launched its "algae to oil" research and development initiatives to produce renewable diesel and jet fuel based entirely on the photosynthesis of algae, which have the unique capability of taking carbon dioxide and converting it into a high-density natural oil."

"Seattle, Washington-based Inventure Chemical has entered into a joint venture with Tel Aviv, Israel-based Seambiotic Ltd. to construct a pilot commercial biofuel plant in Israel, using algae grown with CO₂ from flue gas as feedstock.

The plant will utilize high-yield oil-rich algae strains that Seambiotic has developed and grown in its open pond system coupled with Inventure’s patent-pending conversion processes to produce ethanol, biodiesel and other value-added chemicals."

"The Queensland, Australia, Government is providing A$166,000 (US$160,000) in funding to support the development of an algae biodiesel process by James Cook University (JCU) and Australian biodiesel company MDB Biodiesel Ltd."

"PetroSun’s Rio Hondo, Texas algae farm will commence operations on 1 April as PetroSun’s initial commercial algae-to-biofuels facility. The current algae farm consists of 1,100 acres of saltwater ponds that the company projects will produce a minimum of 4.4 million gallons of algal oil and 110 million pounds of biomass on an annual basis."

"Start-up algal biofuels company Sapphire Energy unveiled a renewable 91 octane gasoline that conforms to ASTM certification derived from algal a biocrude.

Sapphire has developed a platform that produces a “green crude”  and biohydrocarbon fuels from modified algae. Sapphire’s founders and leadership team includes scientists in the fields of petroleum chemistry, biotechnology, algal production, plant genomics, and biogenetics.

Brian Goodall, Sapphire’s new vice president of downstream technology, was most recently at Imperium Renewables, where his team there recently delivered the 1,000 gallons of biojet fuel used on Virgin Atlantic’s first-ever commercial “green” jet flight."

"A COMMERCIAL alternative to diesel using biofuel made from algae will be developed in five years, the South Australian Research and Development Institute says.

Research is expected to begin at SARDI's new Aquatic Sciences plant at West Beach next year, facility manager Eric Capelle said."

"Seattle, Washington-based Inventure Chemical has entered into a joint venture with Tel Aviv, Israel-based Seambiotic Ltd. to construct a pilot commercial biofuel plant in Israel, using algae grown with CO₂ from flue gas as feedstock.

The plant will utilize high-yield oil-rich algae strains that Seambiotic has developed and grown in its open pond system coupled with Inventure’s patent-pending conversion processes to produce ethanol, biodiesel and other value-added chemicals."

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2008-01-23

"At the Sundance film festival this week, Solazyme is promoting its scalable process that makes biodiesel from algae by driving a car through the busy streets of Park City, Utah. The Mercedes is fueled by Soladiesel, the Solazyme biodiesel that is "biodegradable, nontoxic and safe" and made using algae.

Soladiesel_RD is output from a refinery, where a hydrotreatment stage deoxygenates the algal oil, resulting in a pure hydrocarbon product. The final product’s chemical composition is identical to that of standard petroleum-based diesel, and Soladiesel_RD is fully compatible with the existing transportation fuel infrastructure."