Sentences with phrase «in algal biofuels»

Another example of innovative biomass research in Queensland is in algal biofuels.

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The authors find that the main barriers to large - scale deployment of both macro - and micro-algae, include high demands of key resources for algal growth (such as nutrients, water and CO ₂), difficulty in maintaining selected species with high productivity content in outdoor culture, as well as high energy requirements and costs of algal production and conversion into biofuels.

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To this end, it offers a comprehensive overview of recent advances on promising algal biofuels production pathways, in terms of technological development, opportunities and limitations.

NAS released a comprehensive report yesterday, identifying potential issues of sustainability in the burgeoning algal biofuels industry.

Today Pollack published an overview on algal biofuels that features two San Diego algae biofuels startups — Synthetic Genomics and Sapphire Energy — and mentions the concerns raised in some quarters about growing genetically engineered algae in open ponds.

There is not a single similar institution in the U.S. — oh, you might point to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, managed jointly by Bechtel and Battelle (oil pipelines and «clean coal» - FutureGen projects), but they get their funding slashed every year, more or less — and they cancelled their most promising biofuel program, algal biofuel, back in 1997 — good luck with that.

Phil Pienkos, Al Darzins and Eric Jarvis at NREL recently wrote in IEEE Spectrum: «our projections suggest that in the next 10 years or so algal biofuels will be able to compete economically with crude oil costing between $ 75 and $ 100 per barrel.»