Researchers at the University of Michigan are working on a way to make renewable diesel fuel from algae. A new $2 million grant from the Department of Energy will help those researchers successfully ...
The first alternative fuel made from algae has gone on sale at four petrol stations in what advocates insist is the first wave in a tide of clean fuel that will hit the marketplace. "Today, at this ...
Volkswagen of America, Inc. has opened the renewable fuels door wider now that its two-year Renewable Diesel Evaluation Program in collaboration with Solazyme, Inc. and Amyris, Inc., two of the ...
RIVERSIDE -- A San Francisco company’s will tap into under-used large vats at Cherokee Pharmaceuticals plant in Riverside to open its first facility to make biodiesel fuel from algae oil. “Cherokee ...
NORFOLK, Va. -- The scientists from Old Dominion University stood on the roof of the local sewage plant and smiled. "Look at the color," said Margaret Mulholland, pointing to emerald-green slime ...
A California biotech firm is betting algae is a fuel of the future, and to prove the stuff works, it's driving around the Sundance Film Festival in car powered by algae-derived biofuel it calls ...
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 ...
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