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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...
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...
Wow! Tiny Washingtonpost Article
Came across this article in the Washington Post today about a Mexican company called Biofields that owns a license to make ethanol from algae. It plans to invest a whopping $850Million to build a plant in the Mexican desert. It will be able to produc...
Food crops not good for Biofuels
Lawrence Journal World & News has a quick rant on the use of soybeans & corn to produce biofuels. They quote Glen Kertz, President and COO of Valcent Products:"...algae can produce 100,000 gallons of oil per acre compared to 30 gallons of oil...
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....
