• The need for an alternative to fossil fuels has never been more apparent than today, and algae may provide and important part of the solution. (cellana.com)
  • Renewable diesel is one of the most advanced diesel fuels on the market today outperforming both conventional biodiesel and fossil diesel. (cellana.com)
  • Um, so as an advocate, as, as a scientist who speaks out about climate urgency, I think my message is made much, much stronger by my decision to use less fossil fuels. (kpbs.org)
  • Typically, official uses of the term, such as qualification for governmental incentives, exclude fossil fuels and nuclear energy whose undesired consequences are high carbon dioxide emissions, the major contributing factor of global warming according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and difficulties of radioactive waste disposal. (crystalinks.com)
  • In a general sense in contemporary society, alternative energy is that which is produced without the undesirable consequences of the burning of fossil fuels, such as high carbon dioxide emissions, which is considered to be the major contributing factor of global warming according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (crystalinks.com)
  • The U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management's (FECM's) Carbon Utilization Program announced up to $19 million in federal funding for the advancement of technologies that utilize waste carbon to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and produce reliable feedstocks for biotechnologies. (energy.gov)
  • People began to say 'Hey, we have got to start taking this biofuel stuff seriously, we cannot continue to burn fossil fuel and just spew the CO2 into the atmosphere,'" he says. (ecologycenter.org)
  • High oil prices and environmental and economic security concerns have triggered interest in using algae-derived oils as an alternative to fossil fuels. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Policy makers and researchers are interested in developing biofuels because they can create fewer overall greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Considering we don't know exactly how all of our oil was formed to begin with… it's possible that we're just re-inventing what biology made for us when it created fossil fuels. (techdirt.com)
  • Most of the fuel that we currently consume is fossil fuel formed from the fossilized, buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • One such fossil fuel, petroleum, is refined into other fuels, such as diesel and gasoline. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Because of their origins, fossil fuels have a high carbon content, meaning they produce a lot of energy when they are burned. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • However, burning fossil fuels can have negative impacts on our environment through air and water pollution and the release of carbon dioxide, a known greenhouse gas thought to contribute to global warming. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Another limitation of fossil fuel is that they are an exhaustible resource that will eventually run out. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Our growing fuel needs compounded with the risks and limitations of fossil fuels have led to a renewable energy movement aimed at reducing the production and use of fossil fuels in favor of cleaner, more sustainable fuel sources. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Biofuels are promising substitutes for fossil fuels that are produced from renewable, organic (carbon-containing) materials like plant matter and animal waste. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Biofuel is a fuel that is produced over a short time span from biomass , rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels , such as oil. (wikipedia.org)
  • The climate change mitigation potential of biofuel varies considerably, from emission levels comparable to fossil fuels in some scenarios to negative emissions in others. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Cambridge, Mass. -based company says it can manipulate the organism to produce the renewable fuels on demand at unprecedented rates, and can do it in facilities large and small at costs comparable to the cheapest fossil fuels. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • It is anticipated that large volumes of CO2 will be available as fossil fuel-based power plants and other CO2-emitting industries are equipped with CO2 emissions control technologies to comply with regulatory requirements. (energy.gov)
  • Energy derived from fossil fuels create a heavy toll on the environment. (greenlivingtips.com)
  • When fossil fuels are burned, they generate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases . (greenlivingtips.com)
  • Additionally, fossil fuels are finite. (greenlivingtips.com)
  • Is Hydrogen the Best Fuel Option to Replace Fossil Fuels? (azocleantech.com)
  • Taken at face-value, biofuels present a renewable alternative to fossil fuels. (azocleantech.com)
  • Why are the Costs of Renewable Energy Lower than Fossil Fuels? (azocleantech.com)
  • Algal biofuel is an alternative to fossil fuel, which is generated by specific algae species from carbon dioxide. (azocleantech.com)
  • This article will overview pink hydrogen, its production process, recent developments, and prospects as a sustainable fossil-fuel alternative. (azocleantech.com)
  • With fossil fuel depots becoming increasingly depleted every day and the difficulty of locating new reserves. (azocleantech.com)
  • Natural gas burns 'cleaner' than other fossil fuels. (azocleantech.com)
  • As we previously reported, algae is a fuel source that's vastly more eco-friendly than oil, and will be crucial as we head into a future filled with climate change and depleting fossil fuels. (lifeboat.com)
  • Biofuels tend to require higher energy inputs per unit energy than fossil fuels: oil can be pumped out of the ground and processed more efficiently than bio-fuels can be grown and processed. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • However, this is not necessarily a reason to use fossil oil instead of organic fuels, but careful attention needs to be paid to the environmental benefits provided by any given product. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • Meanwhile, the EU directive calls for the substitution of 5.75% (energy equivalent) of overall fossil fuels demand by the year 2010, and proposes a 10% substitution by the year 2020. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • We absolutely have to have - particularly in this constrained budget environment - a stably priced, domestically produced alternative to fossil fuels that do spike just on world crises,' explains Mabus. (sustainablebusiness.com)
  • This session will include presentations to address challenges created by the current fossil-fuel-based unsustainable linear economy and development of knowledge and technologies to recreate a bio-based economy inspired by the Nature's circularity. (ibe.org)
  • It would be a statement, they said, about our global dependence on fossil fuels and the untapped promise of burgeoning green technologies. (good.is)
  • Increasingly, expensive oil, coal and global warming are causing an energy revolution by requiring fossil fuels to be supplemented by alternative energy sources and by requiring changes in lifestyle. (typepad.com)
  • As the world's population grows, our sources of fossil fuel is becoming more limited. (ubc.ca)
  • Re-Source is the result of an intensive research and work on new resources able to unseat fossil fuel uses. (bustler.net)
  • Now you've come in from all over the world -- and besides the carbon debit of using fossil fuels in jets, I say it's really great -- but that, of course, in the future may not be the situation, so in a way that makes this all the more poignant to be able to personally get together like this before something else might happen. (projectcamelot.org)
  • Because of disadvantages of fossil fuels, renewable energy sources are getting importance for sustainable energy development and environmental protection. (edu.au)
  • Biomass is a renewable source of raw material, as we can always grow more, unlike commonly used fossil fuels. (lu.se)
  • Algae can grow on waste CO 2 , functioning as a carbon sink, and that algae biomass can then be used to create low or no-emissions biofuels and bioproducts which displace GHGs. (energy.gov)
  • Biofuels, or fuels derived from biomass, are great in theory. (good.is)
  • When we grow the algae, it's about 50 percent oil and about 30 to 35 percent protein, then we separate the oil from the rest of the biomass. (biocom.org)
  • Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a biodiesel fuel using a fermentation process that was once used to make explosives in World War I. The process uses a bacterium called Clostridium acetobutylicum (also known as the "Weizmann Organism") to ferment sugar from various sources - including corn, sugar cane, molasses, woody biomass, or plant biomass - and produces acetone, butanol, and ethanol. (techdirt.com)
  • They genetically engineered the marine alga Dunaliella tertiolecta to produce five different enzymes that could be used to convert biomass to fuel. (techdirt.com)
  • Solazyme , a startup based in South San Francisco, CA, has developed a new way to convert biomass into fuel using algae, and the method could lead to less expensive biofuels. (technologyreview.com)
  • That middleman is the "biomass," such as the untold tons of corn or algae that must be grown, harvested and destroyed to extract a fuel that still must be treated and refined to be used. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Recovering the fuel is where Joule could find significant problems, said Pienkos, the NREL scientist, who is also principal investigator on a Department of Energy-funded project with Algenol , a Joule competitor that makes ethanol and is one of the handful of companies that also bypass biomass. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Lipids extracted from harvested algae will be converted to a bio-fuel, and an anaerobic digestion process will be developed and tested for converting residual biomass into methane. (energy.gov)
  • Biofuel can be broadly defined as solid, liquid, or gas fuel consisting of, or derived from biomass. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • Transformational biofuels technologies, like catalytic biomass pyrolysis, have the potential to substantially enhance the economic and energy security of the U.S. by converting abundant domestic biomass resources-such as the leaves, husks or stalks from corn-into transportation fuel. (energy.gov)
  • As this biomass conversion technology matures toward commercialization, opportunities across the industry will become available for providers of raw materials, technology developers, refiners, and fuel distributors. (energy.gov)
  • Research Triangle Institute (RTI) is developing a new pyrolysis process to convert second-generation biomass into biofuels in one simple step. (energy.gov)
  • RTI's catalytic biomass pyrolysis differs from conventional flash pyrolysis in that its end product contains less oxygen, metals, and nitrogen-all of which contribute to corrosion, instability, and inefficiency in the fuel-production process. (energy.gov)
  • Results from the five-year study highlights the prairie grass' potential as a biomass fuel source that yields significantly more energy than is consumed in production and conversion into cellulosic ethanol, said Ken Vogel, a U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service geneticist in UNL's agronomy and horticulture department. (typepad.com)
  • EROEI is a good benchmark for ghg and also the usefulness of biomass as a transportation fuels. (typepad.com)
  • The reason I am very positive about biomass to energy is that there many huge environmental benefits like restoring top soil and reducing wind and water erosion. (typepad.com)
  • As a partner with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), I am involved with three different biomass-related technology investments focused on extracting the energy value from organic waste such as food waste, yard trimmings, wood and municipal solid waste (MSW). (biocycle.net)
  • The venture capital industry began investing in biomass, in earnest, five years ago when hype around ethanol and other biobased fuels led to an unsustainable capacity expansion and strained feedstock supplies. (biocycle.net)
  • First, in most cases, proprietary feedstock supply chains must be built around these innovations, i.e., thousands of tons of specially cultivated biomass (e.g., energy crops) need to be redirected to wherever the plant is. (biocycle.net)
  • Not all technologies can fit into this box, but I think opportunities do exist, particularly with more dollars going towards research and development of biomass energy. (biocycle.net)
  • Ideally biorefineries do not produce waste material as biomass is lost - instead the excess biomass left after production of the economically most interesting products can be used to produce biomethane for use as fuel. (lu.se)
  • Biofuels and bioproducts made from algae such as plastics, foams, and chemicals can be direct replacements for so many different everyday products from flip flops to water bottles. (energy.gov)
  • A new study shows that 17 percent of the United States' imported oil for transportation could be replaced by biofuel made from algae. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Researchers also predicted that the price per gallon of bio-fuel made from algae could be less than the current gasoline equivalent. (ubc.ca)
  • Plenty of research is already under way to figure out ways to make biofuel production more efficient with the help of microorganisms. (techdirt.com)
  • In order to access the sugars to make biofuel, the fibrous lignin must be broken apart. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Duffy was addressing a gathering of a couple dozen scientists, engineers and industrialists gathered in the Alumni House in January to discuss how to make biofuel from algae-and how to make it profitable. (wm.edu)
  • In recent years, there has been increasing interest in biofuels due to growing concerns about global warming and rising oil prices. (techdirt.com)
  • Although interest in biofuels is growing, they only represent around three percent of road transport fuels in use around the world today. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Cellana has recently announced that it has entered into a multi-year off-take agreement with Neste Oil, the world's leading supplier of renewable diesel, for commercial-scale quantities of Cellana's ReNewâ„¢ Fuel algae oil feedstocks for biofuel applications. (cellana.com)
  • Diseases such as fungal pathogens cause costly algal feedstock crashes, but the life cycle assessments (LCAs) used to analyze the viability of algal feedstocks for biofuel have yet to consider the impact of disease on life cycle metrics. (bvsalud.org)
  • Consider: the European Union has an ambitious biofuels target requiring 20 percent of liquid transport fuels to come from renewable sources by 2020. (good.is)
  • A committee in the European Parliament endorsed a plan that calls for 10% of transportation fuels to come from sources such as plants and grains by 2020, but it also calls for a switch to other renewable sources over time. (planetizen.com)
  • Domestic biofuels could replace over 1 billion barrels of oil and 58 million tons of coal from 2020-2030 while reducing nearly 700 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (energy.gov)
  • That's 17 percent of the petroleum that the U.S. imported in 2008 for transportation fuels, and it could be grown on land roughly the size of South Carolina. (sciencedaily.com)
  • New technologies and processes that produce fuels from waste, inedible crops or forestry products are being developed and these fuels are known as advanced, or second-generation biofuels. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • To avoid a " food versus fuel " dilemma, second-generation biofuels (also called advanced biofuels or sustainable biofuels ) are made from waste products. (wikipedia.org)
  • This was followed by an era of numerous investments in "second generation" biofuels and chemicals, mostly focused on sugar and syngas platforms or algae. (biocycle.net)
  • Cellulosic waste can also be used for drop-in biofuels, or biofuels that can be implemented within today's fuel distribution infrastructure. (good.is)
  • That means airlines will increasingly lean on drop-in biofuels as oil prices rise in the coming years. (good.is)
  • This effort marks the start of the 'new normal,' where drop-in biofuels will be fully integrated with our regular fuel operations, says Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. (sustainablebusiness.com)
  • The environmental impact of other aspects of biofuel production, including the widespread cultivation of fast-growing jatropha (a plant that produces a toxic vegetable oil), are unknown. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • There are a number of ongoing investigative projects across the country, virtually all of them based on the cultivation of a monoculture-one or another single species of algae, sometimes genetically engineered strains. (wm.edu)
  • Research done by Raphael Slade and Ausilio Bauen explains the problems with energy and carbon balance, environmental impacts and production cost if algae cultivation is to be industrialized. (ubc.ca)
  • Building infrastructures that are required to process many tonnes of algae per day will result in high cultivation costs. (ubc.ca)
  • Iran has enough land in order to algae cultivation that does not compete with food production. (edu.au)
  • For outdoor cultivation of algal feedstocks to become a commercially viable and sustainable option for biofuel production, algal cultivation must maintain high yields and temporal stability in environmentally variable outdoor ponds. (bvsalud.org)
  • Demand for biofuels has risen dramatically over the past decade due to the converging forces of crude oil cost, ongoing environmental and sustainability issues, and national energy security. (cellana.com)
  • Due to concerns about peak oil, energy security, fuel diversity and sustainability, there is great interest around the world in renewable sources of biofuels. (www.csiro.au)
  • Algae technology provides not only an exceptional carbon sink, but a versatile material product which offers solutions to sustainability challenges from fuel to plastics. (energy.gov)
  • In celebration of Earth Day, we hear from David about why algae is truly a "superfood" for the planet's health, what's next in store for the company, and how sustainability is an essential part of his personal values. (biocom.org)
  • This could help improve sustainability, making advanced biofuels a promising form of fuel for the future. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • The biggest contribution is $9 million for the U.S. School of Mines , which will research how to "enhance overall algal biofuels sustainability by maximizing carbon dioxide, nutrient, and water recovery and recycling, as well as bio-power co-generation. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Here, we incorporate a disease model into a well-documented LCA for algal biorefineries to compare two sustainability metrics, energy return on investment (EROI) and global warming potential (GWP). (bvsalud.org)
  • Better yet, algae doesn't mind its water brackish or filthy, and can be grown using seawater, municipal wastewater, agricultural runoff, or the water from saline aquifers. (ecologycenter.org)
  • Approximately 100 companies in the United States are working towards developing algae-based biofuels, and for good reason-algae can generate up to 300 times more oil per acre than conventional crops, it has a quick harvest cycle (as little as one day), and it can flourish in everything from seawater to wastewater. (good.is)
  • This is the use of algae for the removal, or biotransformation, of pollutants and toxic compounds from wastewater and carbon dioxide from effluent air stream. (helsinki.fi)
  • Could algae that feast on wastewater produce clean bio-fuels and a healthful supply of fish food? (phys.org)
  • This session will showcase new and exciting research on creating sustainable and economically feasible wastes-to-bioproducts systems to meet the need for environmentally friendly wastewater treatment and energy resources. (ibe.org)
  • Their finding suggests that algal biofuels could also be produced in the ocean, in the brackish water of tidelands, or even on otherwise unusable agricultural land with high salt content in the soil. (techdirt.com)
  • Capturing this waste carbon then allows for algae to be cultivated into a variety of biofuels and bioproducts. (energy.gov)
  • The finished products from upgrading may be fuels or bioproducts ready to sell into the commercial market, or stabilized intermediates that can be sent to a petroleum refinery or chemical manufacturing plant. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • The table below provides an analysis of the composition and energy potential of terrestrial, first-generation energy crops versus compared to the next-generation energy crop, microalgae. (cellana.com)
  • But critics spar over the carbon economics of using crops-particularly corn-as biofuel feedstocks. (ecologycenter.org)
  • Sure, so-called 'first generation' biofuels (think corn-based ethanol) are somewhat inefficient and often suck up land that could be used for food crops, but as a whole, biofuels are a handy alternative to traditional petroleum-based fuels, right? (good.is)
  • currently, a third of all land sold or acquired on the continent is designated for fuel crops like jatropha, oil palm, cassava, and sugar cane, according to a report ( PDF ) from Friends of the Earth. (good.is)
  • However, growing crops, making fertilizers and pesticides, and processing the plants into biofuel requires so much energy that it's questionable whether biofuels are really as environmentally friendly as they might seem on the surface. (techdirt.com)
  • It involves manipulating living organisms or their genetic material to improve crops, create biofuels, produce medicines, clean up pollutants, and much more. (hakia.com)
  • Today, most biofuels are produced from agricultural crops and are called conventional, or first-generation, biofuels. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Because advanced biofuels use waste products, leftover plant scraps and non-food crops, they do not take crops and land away from the food supply industry. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Some algae produce triglycerides such as those produced by soybeans and other oil-rich crops. (technologyreview.com)
  • First-generation biofuels (also denoted as "conventional biofuels") are made from food crops grown on arable land. (wikipedia.org)
  • Use of liquid fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel, derived primarily from agricultural crops, is increasing dramatically. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • In many regions, rising demand threatens both the cost and availability of the crops to make this fuel. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • In that way, algae are not unlike different varieties of food crops like corn or potatoes, Manos said. (wm.edu)
  • Algae is capable of yielding 30 times more oil per acre than the crops currently used in biodiesel production. (edu.au)
  • Processes for biodiesel production from algae-oil are similar to food and non-food crops derived biodiesel processes. (edu.au)
  • Many species of algae can produce oils comprising up to 35% or more of their dry weight. (cellana.com)
  • We have screened more than 200 strains from over 125 species and 16 different classes of algae in our collection, including the high hydrocarbon producing microalga Botryococcus and productive green algae such as Nannochloropsis and Tetraselmis . (www.csiro.au)
  • It's been estimated that between 30,000 to 1 million different species of algae exist in oceans, lakes, and rivers, and the tiny organism does everything from absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen to serving as food for colorful fish. (biocom.org)
  • A novel phase change material incorporated in Touchstone's technology will cover the algae pond surface to regulate daily temperature, reduce evaporation, and control the infiltration of invasive species. (energy.gov)
  • In the first place, we're going to work with many species of algae, as opposed to concentrating on farming a monoculture, or attempting to contain genetically modified algae in open-water environments," Manos said. (wm.edu)
  • Different species of algae considerably in lipid content, which essentially means how much of the algae is oil. (wm.edu)
  • It's no wonder that scientists have been trying to find ways to convert these algal species into bio-fuels in the last half-century. (ubc.ca)
  • Despite these issues, algal species hold a promise in becoming the next prominent source for bio-fuel. (ubc.ca)
  • A salt lake (Lake Orumieh) in Iran's West Azarbaijan province, Maharlu salt lake in Iran's Fars province, Qom salt lake in Iran's Qom province have given rise to a new species of algae for biofuel. (edu.au)
  • The first axial compressor jet engine in widespread production and combat service, the Junkers Jumo 004 used on the Messerschmitt Me 262A fighter and the Arado Ar 234B jet recon-bomber, burned either a special synthetic "J2" fuel or diesel fuel. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the open-pond growth phase of Cellana's algae production system, we purposely create a nutrient-deficient environment in order to maximize oil production. (cellana.com)
  • We are discovering the potential of different strains for biodiesel through lipid profiling and assessing biofuel production potential. (www.csiro.au)
  • Corn ethanol also raises the "indirect land use" conundrum-when farms are switched from food to fuel production, virgin land elsewhere must be cultivated to meet the world's unrelenting demand for food. (ecologycenter.org)
  • If a farmer chooses to stop growing food and start growing a biofuel, or chooses to bring new land into production because the market for biofuels is growing, that comes with a carbon penalty, and sometimes that penalty alone can actually be worse than gasoline," says Kammen. (ecologycenter.org)
  • But cellulosic biofuel production is lagging. (good.is)
  • A recent estimate from the U.S. Energy Information Administration projects cellulosic biofuel production to be 3.94 million gallons in 2011. (good.is)
  • And what about algae fuel , once thought of as the holy grail of biofuel production? (good.is)
  • It was clear there was a lot of research needed to bring algae production through to the commercial phase to make it economically viable. (biocom.org)
  • Much of today's commercial algae production is done in open ponds. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The study also showed that up to 48 percent of the current transportation oil imports could be replaced with algae, though that higher production level would require significantly more water and land. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Fuels from waste and biologically regenerating raw materials represent an increasing alternative to the mineral oil production for the decentralized energy-technical future. (mynewsdesk.com)
  • The alternative energy methods of production include waste to energy, farming of green algae and bio-mass and bio-fuels production. (mynewsdesk.com)
  • Companies like Luca Technologies and Next Fuel are investigating the potential for microbial methane production from coal. (techdirt.com)
  • Researchers at Purdue University are studying how termite digestion could help improve biofuel production. (techdirt.com)
  • Further research could lead to finding enzymes that could one day be used to help improve biofuel production. (techdirt.com)
  • I wonder how many biofuel production plants are in states that don't provide tax breaks for them? (techdirt.com)
  • Think about this for a while: biofuel production as it currently is implemented only makes sense for corporate, commodity export agriculture. (techdirt.com)
  • The U.S. portion of that offering may come through Total's American subsidiary, SunPower Corp., which 'recently introduced a new service that includes onsite solar energy production for facility needs and is also planning to expand into smart energy management, storage and distribution to the grid,' Total said in a report. (eenews.net)
  • The energy content in the global production of bioethanol and biodiesel is 2.2 and 1.8 EJ per year, respectively. (wikipedia.org)
  • They will be forced to adopt new economic models and attempt to corner new markets, based on the production of alternative energy products, or risk collapse or absorption by more powerful competitors. (ips-dc.org)
  • This Oct. 26, 2010 photograph provided by Joule Unlimited shows the company s ethanol and diesel production testing facility in Leander, Texas, where arrays of bacteria gather sunlight and carbon dioxide and convert them to fuel. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Touchstone Research Laboratory Ltd. (Triadelphia, W. Va.)--This project will pilot-test an open-pond algae production technology that can capture at least 60 percent of flue gas CO2 from an industrial coal-fired source to produce biofuel and other high value co-products. (energy.gov)
  • The discovery brings us one step closer to the dream of achieving thermonuclear fusion energy - the production of clean, sustainable, and limitless energy using the same process the Sun uses to produce heat. (lifeboat.com)
  • The challenge in harnessing the energy from thermonuclear fusion is that, as with any form of energy production, you need to get out more than you put in, and heating things to temperatures that rival the centre of the Sun is not easy. (lifeboat.com)
  • A further note of caution needs to be sounded, so we don't divert too much food crop into biofuels production. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • The rise of food transport costs, associated with the increase in oil prices, and biofuel production were blamed for the price hikes. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • These targets include both production and use for biofuels. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • For example, Indonesia planned to expand palm oil production for biofuels 43-fold, a move that threatened most of that country's remaining rain forests and peat lands. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • We visit a state-of the-art ethanol plant in Macon, Missouri where a maintenance electrician, production operator, quality control director and plant administrator oversee the conversion of corn into fuel. (phoenixlearninggroup.com)
  • This technology is expected to easily integrate into the existing domestic petroleum refining infrastructure, making it an economically attractive option for biofuels production. (energy.gov)
  • If successful, RTI's project would decrease the production cost of domestic biofuels, enabling a cost-competitive alternative to petroleum-based fuel. (energy.gov)
  • Increasing the production of domestic biofuels could help the U.S. cut foreign oil imports by 33% in 15 years. (energy.gov)
  • These structures offer an eco-production for bio-fuel, which would be distributed in-situ. (bustler.net)
  • Re-Source is an alternative to the production of Bio-fuel 3rd generation. (bustler.net)
  • There is a growing interest for biodiesel production from algae because of its higher yield non-edible oil production and its fast growth that does not compete for land with food production. (edu.au)
  • This study presents a brief introduction to the resource, status and prospect of algae as a sustainable energy source for biodiesel production in Iran. (edu.au)
  • The main advantages of using algae for biodiesel production in Iran are described. (edu.au)
  • Because algae oil is comprised of triglycerides and other fatty acids, it can be converted to a variety of fuel-related products, including biofuels such as renewable diesel, biodiesel, and renewable jet fuel, through the same processes used to convert vegetable oils, animal fats, and other oils. (cellana.com)
  • For example, transesterification of vegetable oil to biodiesel is essentially identical to that of transforming algae oil to biodiesel. (cellana.com)
  • Biodiesel is derived from renewable resources such as vegetable oils, animal fats, or algae oils. (cellana.com)
  • Algae oil can easily be converted to biodiesel through the same technology used to convert the oil from oil seeds to biodiesel, namely, transesterification. (cellana.com)
  • This oil can be converted into fuels that can be used by today's vehicles: diesel, biodiesel, gasoline, even jet fuel. (ecologycenter.org)
  • Algae can potentially produce biofuels in several forms - such as biodiesel, biogas, biohydrogen and bioethanol. (helsinki.fi)
  • The two most common types of biofuels in use today are ethanol and biodiesel. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • The two most common types of biofuel are bioethanol and biodiesel . (wikipedia.org)
  • Australian Renewable Fuels Ltd, with three plants each producing over 40 million litres of biodiesel from tallow are likely to move to Mexico. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • A proposal for a skyscraper that grows biodiesel-emitting algae took 2nd place in a competition to design the 300m tall Taiwan Tower in Taichung. (planetizen.com)
  • We also examine new technology in advanced biodiesel, produced from animal fats and from algae and waste materials. (phoenixlearninggroup.com)
  • Algae can be converted directly into energy, such as biodiesel, bioethanol and biomethanol and therefore can be a source of renewable energy. (edu.au)
  • About 50% of algae weight is oil that this lipid oil can be used to make biodiesel. (edu.au)
  • Most people automatically think of fuels such as biogas, biodiesel, and bioethanol when they hear the term biorefinery. (lu.se)
  • Fuel for piston-engine powered aircraft (usually a high-octane gasoline known as avgas) has a high volatility to improve its carburetion characteristics and high autoignition temperature to prevent preignition in high compression aircraft engines. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gasoline was a third option but unattractive due to high fuel consumption. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other fuels used were kerosene or kerosene and gasoline mixtures. (wikipedia.org)
  • A blend of approximately 30% kerosene and 70% gasoline, it is known as wide-cut fuel. (wikipedia.org)
  • Alternatively, the feedstock oil derived from algae can be hydro-treated to produce bio-alkanes such as renewable diesel, renewable gasoline, JP-8, and other jet fuels. (cellana.com)
  • Biofuel and ethanol are plant-derived substitutes of gasoline for powering vehicles. (crystalinks.com)
  • America has tried, with increasing earnestness, to reduce its gasoline habit-first through greater fuel efficiency, more recently via "first generation" biofuels, such as corn-based ethanol, intended to replace petroleum with plant power. (ecologycenter.org)
  • Americans consume an average of 390 million gallons of motor gasoline and 197 million gallons of aviation gasoline, per day, to fuel planes, trains, and automobiles. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • It is blended with gasoline, either at low levels in regular vehicles or at higher levels in cars that have been adapted to take both gasoline and ethanol, known as flexible-fuel vehicles. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Ethanol can be used as a fuel for vehicles in its pure form (E100), but it is usually used as a gasoline additive to increase octane ratings and improve vehicle emissions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many other, bigger, algae-based renewable gasoline projects are taking off which pioneer processing the gooey sludge at commercial level. (enn.com)
  • And the US Energy Department is reviving a massive project it botched in 1996 to produce algae gasoline on a large scale. (enn.com)
  • Creating conventional petroleum-derived products requires a lot of energy and emissions. (energy.gov)
  • Since biofuels emit less carbon dioxide than conventional fuels they can be blended with existing fuels as an effective way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in transportation. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Algae can be used to mitigate CO2 emissions and produce biofuels. (ifandp.com)
  • At the same time, the use of existing fuels like oil and coal, which spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, is likely to plummet, thanks both to diminished supplies and rising concerns over the growing dangers of carbon emissions. (ips-dc.org)
  • Washington, DC - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the selections of six projects that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. (energy.gov)
  • A key regulation in California's war on global warming emissions withstood a major court challenge by the energy industry-both oil and corn ethanol-when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear their challenge to an Appeals Court ruling on June 30. (planetizen.com)
  • Our results emphasize the impact of disease and suggest that multispecies consortia of algae can be biologically engineered to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the economic viability of biofuel. (bvsalud.org)
  • Unlike Europe where renewable energy is heavily subsidized, very few biogas projects that convert farm waste to energy using anaerobic digesters are being built in the U.S. State incentives are instrumental due to high capital and maintenance costs. (planetizen.com)
  • Some have advocated chucking liquid fuels altogether for electric batteries or hydrogen fuel cells. (ecologycenter.org)
  • Wedged into a report about the merits of various alternative fuels for port activities is a recent report from the American Chemical Society stating that alligator fat may be a great alternative to soy-based biogas. (planetizen.com)
  • The transportation fuel requirements in the U.S. alone are equivalent to greater than 150 billion gallons of biofuel per year. (cellana.com)
  • Additionally, this FOA will contribute to BETO's goal of producing at least 3 billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuels by 2030. (energy.gov)
  • The researchers found that 21 billion gallons of algal oil, equal to the 2022 advanced biofuels goal set out by the Energy Independence and Security Act, can be produced with American-grown algae. (sciencedaily.com)
  • But the authors also found that 350 gallons of water per gallon of oil -- or a quarter of what the country currently uses for irrigated agriculture -- would be needed to produce that much algal biofuel. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Joule claims, for instance, that its cyanobacterium can produce 15,000 gallons of diesel full per acre annually, over four times more than the most efficient algal process for making fuel. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • For instance, the United States set a target of producing 35 billion gallons of renewable fuel a year by 2017, an equivalent of almost five times the level currently mandated. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • But now that the US federal government has adopted a goal of 35 billion gallons of alternative fuels a year by 2017, the use of domestic corn-based bio ethanol to meet even half of this target would require 40 percent of that year's expected harvest. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • Since humans collectively produce nearly 3 billion gallons of urine each day, this has much wider implications for clean energy as well. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Growing corn requires irrigation and fertilizer, says Dan Kammen, director of UC Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab, who has analyzed the environmental merits of different fuels. (ecologycenter.org)
  • Fuels made from farm waste itself-like bagasse, the material that remains after pressing sugarcane, or corn stover, its leftover stalks and leaves-have won fans. (ecologycenter.org)
  • Such cellulosic sources require less energy, land, and water to grow than corn grain, the primary source of biofuel in the United States. (technologyreview.com)
  • Alcohol fuels are produced by fermentation of sugars derived from wheat , corn , sugar beets , sugar cane , molasses and any sugar or starch from which alcoholic beverages such as whiskey , can be made (such as potato and fruit waste, etc. (wikipedia.org)
  • Work to create fuel from solar energy has been done for decades, such as by making ethanol from corn or extracting fuel from algae. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • From 2003 to 2006, the percentage of the total US corn harvest used to produce biofuels rose to 16 percent, from 12 percent. (global-greenhouse-warming.com)
  • By using switchgrass for fuel, we can use corn and beans solely for food. (typepad.com)
  • These higher concentrations reduce the amount of infrastructure needed to grow the algae, and also make it much easier to collect the algae and extract the oil, Jarvis says, significantly reducing costs. (technologyreview.com)
  • Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that water use is much less if algae are grown in the U.S. regions that have the sunniest and most humid climates: the Gulf Coast, the Southeastern Seaboard and the Great Lakes. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The team analyzed previously published data to determine how much algae can be grown in open, outdoor ponds of fresh water while using current technologies. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Algae can also be grown in salt water and covered ponds. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The use of biofuels has grown over the past decade, driven largely by the introduction of new energy policies in several countries, including the United States, that call for more renewable, lower-carbon fuels for transport. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • In these approaches, the algae are grown in ponds or bioreactors where they are exposed to sunlight and make their own sugar. (technologyreview.com)
  • Just as important, feeding algae sugar makes it possible to grow them in concentrations that are orders of magnitude higher than when they're grown in ponds using energy from the sun, says Eric Jarvis , a biofuels researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, CO. (Jarvis is not connected to Solazyme. (technologyreview.com)
  • The feedstock used to make the fuels either grow on arable land but are byproducts of the main crop, or they are grown on marginal land. (wikipedia.org)
  • This new technology is expanding opportunities for lab techs, engineers and researchers and creating green jobs for an energy independent future from home grown renewable resources. (phoenixlearninggroup.com)
  • Even though some companies have managed to successfully produce algae fuel in lab conditions, the report claims that the ability to generate fuel 'under outdoor conditions, while achieving both high productivities and oil content, is still to be developed. (good.is)
  • Recently, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have claimed that they have successfully produced crude oil from micro-algae with a process called hydrothermal liquefaction. (ubc.ca)
  • The micro-algae, a sustainable natural resource, is the Bio-fuel 3rd generations' main component. (bustler.net)
  • It offers an economic hub based on Micro - Algae resource, aware and respectful of environmental issues. (bustler.net)
  • The initiative began in 2010, when President Obama challenged the Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy to collaborate on speeding development of domestic, competitively-priced 'drop-in' diesel and jet fuel substitutes. (sustainablebusiness.com)
  • Algal biofuel can be made by extracting and refining the oils, called lipids, that algae produce as they grow. (sciencedaily.com)
  • They present several advantages as compared to land plants: high growth rates, ability to grow on non arable land, appreciable content of lipids (energy-rich compounds). (helsinki.fi)
  • The new process combines genetically modified strains of algae with an uncommon approach to growing algae to reduce the cost of making fuel. (technologyreview.com)
  • Algae naturally make oil, or lipid-it's how they store their energy. (ecologycenter.org)
  • it cultivates algae to naturally soak up carbon dioxide. (enn.com)
  • Renewable energy is derived from natural resources that can be replenished naturally within a relatively short time frame and with potential to provide energy well into the future. (greenlivingtips.com)
  • Renewable energy refers to energy sources that replenish themselves naturally and never run out in human life period. (azocleantech.com)
  • But Duffy was talking about something completely different: making fuel using the wild algae naturally growing in waterways. (wm.edu)
  • Biofuels are generally made by using chemicals, fermentation, and heat to break down the starches, sugars, and other molecules in plants to produce a fuel that can be used by vehicles. (techdirt.com)
  • Solazyme's method has advantages over other approaches that use microorganisms to convert sugars into fuel. (technologyreview.com)
  • What's more, the algae has a particular advantage over many other microorganisms when it comes to processing sugars from cellulosic sources, such as grass and wood chips. (technologyreview.com)
  • Instead of getting energy from sunlight, the algae get energy from the sugars that the researchers feed them. (technologyreview.com)
  • Indeed, Jarvis warns that one of the most expensive parts of making fuels from cellulosic sources is processing them to create simple sugars, a part of the process that Solazyme isn't focused on improving. (technologyreview.com)
  • In human saliva, for example, the enzyme amylase breaks down starch into simple sugars which the body can then use for energy. (lu.se)
  • Enabling alternatives to petroleum-based fuels would reduce and stabilize gas prices for consumers. (energy.gov)
  • Algae biofuels were initially hailed as a holy grail to sustainably power the transportation sector. (mongabay.com)
  • The process also has significant advantages over a quite different way of using algae to create biofuels-one that makes use of algae's ability to employ sunlight to produce their own supply of sugar, using photosynthesis. (technologyreview.com)
  • Solazyme's process of growing the algae in the dark has a couple of advantages over approaches that use ponds or bioreactors. (technologyreview.com)
  • In spite of these advantages over other approaches, Solazyme's method for creating fuel is not yet cheap enough to compete with fuels made from petroleum, Dillon says. (technologyreview.com)
  • Duffy pointed out that ChAP's use of wild algae has a number of advantages over other biofuel approaches. (wm.edu)
  • Sometimes, this less comprehensive meaning of "alternative energy" excludes nuclear energy (e.g. as defined in the Michigan Next Energy Authority Act of 2002). (crystalinks.com)
  • According to BP , the world consumed 13.2 billion tons of oil-equivalent from all sources in 2010: 33.6% from oil, 29.6% from coal, 23.8% from natural gas, 6.5% from hydroelectricity, 5.2% from nuclear energy, and a mere 1.3% percent from all renewable forms of energy. (ips-dc.org)
  • Solar power is actually a form of nuclear energy. (greenlivingtips.com)
  • From powering airplanes to replacing nuclear energy , algae has been touted as a green energy miracle. (lifeboat.com)
  • David Hazlebeck, CEO and founder of Global Algae Innovations, says we haven't fully embraced algae's total potential, and that farming and processing it could completely revolutionize agriculture and how we produce fuels, food, and vegetable oils-and that it can be sustainable alternatives for protein and rainforest-damaging palm oils. (biocom.org)
  • I really came to understand all the challenges in terms of what it would take to bring algae into the commercial marketplace for commodities, for things like oils and proteins. (biocom.org)
  • Waste oils and other organic residual substances can be converted with high efficiency to a valuable material in the form of fuel (diesel). (mynewsdesk.com)
  • The oils made by Solazyme's algae can then be used for a wider range of products than ethanol, says Harrison Dillon , the company's president and chief technology officer. (technologyreview.com)
  • Under 'Farm-to-Fleet,' biofuel blends - such as waste oils from cooking grease and algae - will be purchased in all Department of Defense (DOD) domestic solicitations. (sustainablebusiness.com)
  • While climate change has incentivized attention on sustainable fuel sources, algae has positioned itself as a both promising and problematic biofuel feedstock. (bvsalud.org)
  • But the authors also found that algae's water use isn't that different from most other biofuel sources. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Turbine engines (like diesel engines) can operate with a wide range of fuels because fuel is injected into the hot combustion chamber. (wikipedia.org)
  • The oil can be extracted and further processed to make a range of fuels, including diesel and jet fuel, as well as other products. (technologyreview.com)
  • The fermentation products are then converted into a mix of hydrocarbons that are similar to those in diesel fuel. (techdirt.com)
  • Joule Unlimited has invented a genetically-engineered organism that it says simply secretes diesel fuel or ethanol wherever it finds sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Joule says its organisms secrete a completed product, already identical to ethanol and the components of diesel fuel, then live on to keep producing it at remarkable rates. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Converting captured CO2 into products such as chemicals, carbonates, plastics, fuels, building materials, and other commodities is an important aspect of carbon capture and storage technology. (energy.gov)
  • The application of industrial biotechnology has allowed for the development and deployment of bio-based fuels, chemicals, and produts. (ibe.org)
  • Solar energy is generating of electricity from the sun. (crystalinks.com)
  • Geothermal energy is using hot water or steam from the Earth s interior for heating buildings or electricity generation. (crystalinks.com)
  • Sunlight can be converted directly into electricity using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly with concentrated solar power (CSP), which normally focuses the sun's energy to boil water which is then used to provide power. (crystalinks.com)
  • Electricity isn't the only non-petroleum-based fuel touted as changing the transportation landscape. (good.is)
  • Biofuels are mostly used for transportation, but can also be used for heating and electricity. (wikipedia.org)
  • We can harness this energy through the use of solar panels, collectors and concentrators to generate electricity and the heating or capture of water. (greenlivingtips.com)
  • The stall uses live microbes that feed on urine to power a microbial fuel cell, which, in turn, provides electricity. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • In Solazyme's approach, the researchers deliberately turn off photosynthetic processes by keeping the algae in the dark. (technologyreview.com)
  • Thermochemistry is a branch of chemical thermodynamics , the science that deals with the relationships between heat, work, and other forms of energy in the context of chemical and physical processes. (libretexts.org)
  • Finally, downstream separations and unit operations like distillation often make the energy balance of these processes unsustainable. (biocycle.net)
  • Cellulosic ethanol, which is produced from wood, grasses, and the non-edible parts of plants, is more promising-since it is produced from non-food and waste products, it doesn't use up large swaths of arable land like first generation biofuels. (good.is)
  • Since the author for your Peak Soil' article appears very against biofuels in general, I find it odd that one of her suggested actions is to continue funding research for cellulosic ethanol. (typepad.com)
  • Alternative Energy is an umbrella term that refers to any source of usable energy intended to replace fuel sources without the undesired consequences of the replaced fuels. (crystalinks.com)
  • Over the years, the nature of what was regarded alternative energy sources has changed considerably, and today because of the variety of energy choices and differing goals of their advocates, defining some energy types as "alternative" is highly controversial. (crystalinks.com)
  • Controversies regarding dominant sources of energy and their alternatives have a long history. (crystalinks.com)
  • The fate of nations, too, will be at stake as they place their bets on competing technologies, cling to their existing energy patterns, or compete for global energy sources, markets, and reserves. (ips-dc.org)
  • The City of San Jose, California is on its way to becoming the nation's first energy-independent city, deriving all of its energy from renewable sources. (planetizen.com)
  • Some of the most interesting new innovations in the clean energy industry come from unexpected sources. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Among the renewable sources, Iran has high biofuel energy potential. (edu.au)
  • Now after more than a decade of boom and bust, the industry says it's on the verge of globally scalable, climate-friendly jet, ship and truck fuels. (mongabay.com)
  • The FOA combines the complementary objectives in algal research of both funding offices ( EERE and FECM ) to further the government-wide approach to the climate crisis by driving the innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies by utilizing waste CO 2 . (energy.gov)
  • With 30-plus years of experience as a chemical engineer, he launched the company to research how algae can be produced at a commercial level to address our most pressing climate and food crises. (biocom.org)
  • Algae farming is a relatively safe bet in the current financial climate. (enn.com)
  • Two barriers stand in the way of preserving the existing energy profile: eventual oil scarcity and global climate change. (ips-dc.org)
  • If you work in an office building in Australia, particularly one rated 'green' for its energy efficiency, QUT researchers want your help. (phys.org)
  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientist Philip Pienkos said Joule's technology is exciting but unproven, and their claims of efficiency are undercut by difficulties they could have just collecting the fuel their organism is producing. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • They are starting with blends of 10% and growing to 50% with conventional fuels over the next few years. (sustainablebusiness.com)