Will algae be able to prove itself as a fuel alternative? Inside The Solazyme Kitchen, Where Algae Ice Cream Tastes Good You read that right: Algae. You might have thought it was just for biofuels ...

A group of scientists has discovered a species of algae that is capable of being selectively bred and could help create a renewable alternative to fossil fuels. Algae has already been used to ...

The first attempts to produce a biologically-based fuel to replace mineral petrol and ... "Cultivating Clean Energy. The Promise of Algae Biofuels." Report by the Natural Resources Defense Council ...

In this animated primer, learn why algae and other plants make oil, and how algae oil gets converted to biodiesel.

Algae have long been touted as a rich and ubiquitous source of renewable fuel but thus far have failed to be economically competitive with other sources of energy. Could new advances change that?

On the larger end, macroalgae (seaweed), are not only visible, but can also grow as tall as 200 feet (60m)! Both types of algae contain oils that can be used as fuel. Because this oil is biodegradable ...

The fuel production rate scaled linearly with the ... they said in “Prolonged hydrogen production by engineered green algae photovoltaic power stations,” which was recently published in ...

the PNNL research team concluded that 21 billion gallons of algal fuel could be produced by 2022 in the U.S. To achieve that amount of output, algae would have to be grown on land equal to the ...

combined with microscopic algae. Hydroprocessing allows refineries to catalytically remove impurities or reduce molecular weight and can manipulate algal oils to achieve kerosene-like fuel ...