Sentences with phrase «convert algae oil»
Researchers at United Environment and Energy LLC in Horseheads, New York (yes, Horseheads...) have announced that they have developed «the first economical, eco-friendly process to convert algae oil into biodiesel.»
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«If you just squeeze the oil out of algae, what you basically get is vegetable oil, which you can convert to diesel,» says Stephen Mayfield, a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Diego.
His 2006 startup, Solix Biofuels in Fort Collins, Colorado, will convert cheaply mass - produced, algae - derived oil into biodiesel.
The algae naturally convert renewable plant sugars to oil in just a few days.
The algae are grown in fermenters, just like the kind for making wine and beer, and naturally convert renewable plant sugars to oil in just a few days.
Aurora Biofuels says it has developed a more voracious CO2 - gobbling strain of algae, which produces an oil that can be converted into biofuel.
In an effort to curb carbon emissions, Canadian energy companies have started converting CO2 into products — taking carbon dioxide from processing oil sands, mixing it with wastewater and fed to algae, which then can be turned into cattle feed and other products.
Oil can be profitably replaced by the new methods of directly converting CO2 from the atmosphere or upper ocean using tailored cyanobacteria (already past the «proof - of - concept» stage), or other genetically engineered algae.