Sentences with phrase «making algae fuel»

When eventually built out it will produce 100 barrels of algae biofuel a day, and currently the five - year - old startup is making algae fuel on ponds across about 100 acres.

Not exact matches

And while Boeing's managing director of environmental strategy, Billy Glover, anticipates an eventual portfolio of various plant types — particularly algaes — that will be used to make high - quality fuels, ramping up production will be a daunting short - term challenge for a biofuelled future.

We can be a beacon, a light to show the rest of the country how we can literally make our home grown energy, bio-fuel, using switch grass and algae based bio fuels.

About 2.7 billion years ago, photosynthetic algae in the oceans started making their mark, taking in carbon dioxide as fuel and sending the by - product — oxygen — skyward.

To achieve their grander ambitions, such as creating algae capable of churning out fuel for cars, genetic engineers are now trying to make far more sweeping changes.

Continental jet 516 — a two - engine Boeing 737 - 800 — completed a two hour test flight out of Houston today with one engine powered by a 50 - 50 blend of regular petroleum - based jet fuel and a synthetic alternative made from Jatropha and algae.

But if oil prices rise enough for algae fuels to be cost effective, scientists hope to use what they've learned from that process to make biofuels that are both clean and profitable.

«And these liquid hydrocarbons made by the alga are currently found in petroleum deposits, so we are already using them as a source to generate fuel.

Another company ready to make the leap into commercial scale production of algae fuel is Sapphire Energy, which operates a 2,200 acre algae farm in New Mexico where oil is harvested across 70 open ponds and refined on site.

«Essentially, if we were to use the hydrocarbon oils from this alga to be a renewable fuel source, there would be no need to change any kind of infrastructure for making the fuel.

The idea is simple: the algae or other plants suck up CO2 when they grow, the same CO2 that is released when the fuel made from the algae is burned.

Algae and cyanobacteria are complicated critters: although they can grow in open ponds, unwanted microbial strains can easily contaminate the water and interfere with the growth of the fuel - making strains.

And the EERC fuel is not the only bio-based jet fuel available: UOP, LLC, a division of Honeywell Specialty Materials, has a similar fuel made from vegetable and animal oils, whereas algae - grower Solazyme, Inc., has derived a jet fuel from pond scum that meets ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials International) standards.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

Solazyme can make lots of oil from its stressed algae grown in the dark and fed industrial - grade sugar, but the source of that sugar makes the ultimate fuels less sustainable.

Car magazines are filled with articles about driverless cars, battery - powered vehicles, and climate - friendly fuels made from corn or algae.

I guess Richard Branson, who's trying to make jet fuel with algae, and / or the engineers at Los Alamos looking to turn CO2 back into liquid fuel had better get busy.

Finally, making large amounts of jet fuel from algae represents a major hurdle, from perfecting the algae's growth to extracting the oil cost - effectively.

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Both those ventures rely on genetically - tweaking algae to make it churn out more fuel.

But in March 2013, the company announced it was pulling out of a $ 600 million project to make motor fuels from algae, a joint venture with Synthetic Genomics Inc., less than six years after the project began in July 2007.

«We're making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that's actually made from a plant - like substance — algae... we could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in America.»

Last summer, it made its first serious foray into alternative fuels by plunking down $ 600 million to develop algae biofuels.

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.

Oils made from algae usually have to be refined into fuel following a batch process, but helioculture produces fuel directly — either ethanol or hydrocarbons — that do not need refining.

Helioculture uses photosynthetic organisms, but is otherwise distinct from the process that makes fuel from algae.

Exciting new technologies are assisting with this transition: some convert fast growing grasses to ethanol using biochemistry, some convert waste into gases (a mix of hydrogen and carbon monoxide called synthesis gas) that are then converted into ethanol, and others use algae or other microorganisms to make fuel directly from water or sunlight.

A pioneering company wants to harvest the blooming algae to make fuel...

Condider this:» The fossil fuels we burn today - coal, oil and gas took Mother Nature 500 million years to make by taking carbon dioxide out of the air and turning it into algae, plants, trees and critters that ultimately became coal, crude oil and natural gas.»

The algae can be harvested and made into biodiesel fuel and feed for animals.

So far, no company has made cost - competitive fuel at large scale from algae.

Sapphire Energy, a company that plans to make auto fuel from algae, has raised over $ 100 million, including a contribution from Gates» Cascade Investments.

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Though not yet ready for commercial production, the Indiana - based company says that it has developed a bio-aviation fuel made from landfill waste, sorghum, algae and wood chips which it says will be cheaper to produce and perform better than current aviation fuels.

Apparently the company is also working with researchers to develop algae as a feedstock for future tests, and has previously made waves by working with Airways New Zealand to land jumbos in idle as a means to save fuel.

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Or feed captured CO2 to algae that's used to make fuel for cars and trucks.