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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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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...
Is everyone growing algae for biodiesel?
Seems like alot of academic research these days is focusing on algae as a potental fuel source for biodiesel. But instead of cranking out a 50 pager no one will ever read, Michelle Sabaoun and Doug Holland at Brunswick Community College are growing t...
Algae to Biodiesel News Roundup
There's been alot of activity and news surrounding the idea of growing algae and turning it into biodiesel. First, an Israeli firm Seambiotic Ltd is partnering with Seattle-based Inventure Chemical to build a pilot plant in Israel. Hhhhmm, I'll spa...
Advantages of Vertical Growing
I've embarked on a little self education effort to learn more about vertical growing as a function of my interest in utilizing algae to make biodiesel and vertigro. The idea of vertical farming was something that I had actually been thinking about p...
Alternative Fuels are the new Software
Back in the 80s and 90s leading up to the Internet boom that preceded 9/11, software companies were oftentimes great investment bets. Typically, the software solved a business or widespread consumer problem and could grow rapidly via evolving distri...
Algenol lands $100Mil licensing fee
Biofields has licensed Algenol's algae production technology and is building an $850Mil algae farm in the Sonoran desert according to this CNET Article. Algenol's approach is a little different from Valcent's vertigro approach in that it intends to ...
Valcent Competitor News
CNET documents a changing of the guard at Greenfuel Technologies. It's one of a few other companies trying to do what Valcent is attempting to do in turning algae into biofuel on a mass scale. The article covers some of the challenges Greenfuel faced...
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. ...
