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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 pr
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Bloomberg Interview
Here's a Glen Kertz interview on bloomberg. Kertz says it takes 1700 gallons of water to get 1 gallon of ethanol from corn. He says it takes 3 gallons of water to grow a gallon of ethanol via algae....
National Algae Association
The National Algae Association is a non-profit organization comprised of algae researchers, algae production companies and the investment community who share the goal of commercializing algae oil as an alternative feedstock for the biofuels markets. ...
IEEE Article
Wow. The credibility meter is starting to tick up since we now have an article fro none other than the IEEE (website concerning Vertigro and Valcent. This is the article you will want to read to really begin understanding what Valcent is up to with ...
South Bend Local News Story
Here's a story from a local news station in South Bend on Vertigro. Quote from Glen Kertz: “If you take a tenth of the state of New Mexico and converted in solar algae alone this would be all the transportation in the United States,” said Ker...
Smart Company Mention
An Australian online magazine has a mention of Valcent's Vertigro technology highlighting that "algae has great potential as eco-energy becauseit grows rapidly and up to 50% of its weight is lipid oil that can beused as a biofuel." ...
Vertical Vegetable Growing
Interesting vertical vegetable system that Valcent products.Excerpt:A commercial module of one-eighth acre (5,445 square feet) is estimated to have capital costs of $565,000; using a wholesale price for leafy lettuce of $1.10 per head, may have gross...
Who owns what?
Trying to figure out the relationship between Global Green Solutions and Valcent. It appears that GGS markets products that Valcent develops.Here's a graph of their stock prices for the last year. Their businesses must be sufficiently unrelated to ...
Vertigro by Vacent
I decided to start this blog to track coverage for a technology known as Vertigro which produces a an "algae derived fuel" and is made by Valcent Products Inc.A CNN News Story prompted my interest....
