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vertigro: generating biomass rapidly
http://vertigro2day.blogspot.com
This blog tracks the development of Valcent Inc's efforts to mass produce biofuel developed from growing algae veritically in this plastic bags in desert settings. Whereas Corn/Soybeans can produce a few hundred gallons of biofuel per acre, algae can produce 100,000 gallons per acre.
- Added on: May 14th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: j
- Listed in: Environmental Activism Innovation
- Tags: Alternative Energy biofuel alternative fuels ethenol vertigro valcent
Recent Posts
Darpa Making Algae Jet Fuel
Interesting Wired Article:http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/darpa-general-a.html...
Wired on Biofuel for Planes
Are biofuels for planes in our future?http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/11/boeing-says-thr.html...
Global Green Divests from Valcent
Global Green Solutions Inc. has reduced it's exposure to the algae to oil product called Vertigro developed by Valcent Inc. According to Biodiesel magazine, at least one of the reasons is the additional R&D required to keep the project moving fo...
Verticrop launch
A little news article on the launch of Verticrop by Valcent. Here's what Valcent has published (taken from their website) as teh major benefits of the new system:VertiCrop is an innovative and exciting vertical growing system which:Produces approxi...
Call for Interviews
Are you making your own biodiesel from algae? Get in touch with me so we can interview you and describe your efforts to the 3000 people visiting this blog every month....with possible exposure to the 45000 readers of the rest of my blog network. ...
Algae Commercialization: Business Roundtable, Research and Networking Forum
Thanks to the National Algae Association, we have folks making it easier for all of us to take advantage of oil derived from algae. Years ago, they were just focused on clearing algae from golf course lakes so people could find balls accidently hit...
