Sentences with phrase «algae biofuels technology»

Only yesterday we reported on a company promoting algae biofuels technology to KLM airlines and major cruiseships, although it has to be said that some of our commenters were a little sceptical.

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The Energy Department focuses on the next generation of energy technologies — from advanced nuclear reactors to algae biofuels — conducting basic research in its network of 17 national laboratories, and aiding private companies struggling to bring risky new technologies to market.

Utility - scale solar power plants and second - generation biofuels such as algae have led the field in recent financing rounds, but funding is now branching into less developed technologies such as bioplastics, green building materials and water desalination.

Advances in algae - based biofuel technology may restore some of their optimism

Hence, the present technology to convert algae into biofuels is in an undeveloped state.

The review presents the current status of technology options for the potential exploitation of algae as feed stocks for the production of biofuels.

In fact, Trent said, the technology is nearly cost - competitive with land - based production methods for algae biofuels that require vast industrial - scale, open - air pond farms or in closed bioreactors.

Future technologies that need R&D: high - efficiency photovoltaics (say, 50 % conversion)(as well as lowering the cost of PV), energy storage systems for intermittent sources like solar and wind (hydrogen storage, other methods), advances in biofuel technology (for example, hydrogen production from algae, cellulosic ethanol, etc..)

The students, representing 45 different science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions and organizations, exhibited their creations, including state - of - the - art cancer - detection methods, an inexpensive prosthetic arm made almost entirely from a 3 - D printer, algae - based biofuels, and an innovative design for urban water management.

Venture capital for algae biofuels, smart grid start - ups and thin film firms is leading the way to record investments in green technology.

CEOs, entrepreneurs and investors were making huge claims about the promise of algae - based biofuels; the U.S. Department of Energy was also making big bets through its bioenergy technologies office; industry advocates claimed that commercial algae fuels were within near - term reach.

The new method developed by the researchers is valuable both for the basic research of the photosynthesis of algae and for the research and development work of the industrial sector when producing new technologies for the large - scale production of carbon neutral biofuels.

My columns have covered LEDs, solar power, wind power, demand - response, green chemistry, smart grid innovation, water technologies, geothermal, biofuels (with a big focus on algae), electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, nuclear, wave and tidal power, biogas, waste reduction, energy storage, advanced materials... you name it.

At a large - scale, these technologies could help speed commercialization of domestically produced, cost - competitive biofuels from algae.

Then there's the hundreds of millions of dollars ExxonMobil has spent both to research and develop carbon capture and sequestration technologies as well as to investigate the promise of producing advanced biofuels, particularly from algae.

He is president and director of research and development for Valcent Products Inc., a company aiming to bring to market algae - to - biofuel technology.

According to the UOP press release about the biofuel, the technology is also adaptable to algae feedstocks.