Sentences with phrase «with algae fuel»

So how long would it take before people can gas - up with algae fuel?

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Thus mini-nuclear reactors, algae - based fuels, and various other exciting schemes are routinely trotted out as the «source of unlimited energy in the near future,» always with the implicit faith that the process can be scaled up from the laboratory to a global scale with only modest difficulties.

And Synthetic Genomics, the company he founded in 2005, aims to create fuel - producing microbes, including algae biofuels in a $ 300 million agreement with ExxonMobil.

Every future urban home would be equipped with algae bioreactors for both fuel and food.

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.

Next Steps Algae biofuels should benefit from recent changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard, a set of regulations that require gasoline in the United States be blended with a certain amount of renewable fFuel Standard, a set of regulations that require gasoline in the United States be blended with a certain amount of renewable fuelfuel.

California's Solazyme is building an algae fuel factory in Brazil in partnership with food processing giant Bunge and expects to manufacture 100,000 metric tons of fuel there each year.

One of the major problems with biofuels that algae could solve is space, since algae can yield as much as 100 times more fuel per unit area than other so - called «second generation» biofuel crops (e.g. non-food crops or non-food waste parts of food crops).

An architecture student laid out the floor plans for a home with an area dedicated to growing algae to fuel an in - house energy - producing biomass reactor.

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.

The concept of algae - based fuel is not exactly new, and it's fraught with problems.

In Jenkins's system, 95 per cent of the engine's fuel is algae, with oil providing the start - up step.

Algae, with its ability to produce an oil that mimics the properties of crude, could easily slip into existing motors that currently run on fossil fuels, proponents say.

NASA is applying space technology to a decidedly down - to - earth effort that links the production of algae - based fuel with an inexpensive method of sewage treatment.

Historically, commercial companies have outspent universities and the federal government at least 10 - to - 1 in research of algae fuels, an inverse pattern compared with investment for other forms of biofuels.

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

The algae uses CO2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while dramatically reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks.

Venter's closely held company, La Jolla - based Synthetic Genomics Inc., has a $ 600 million deal with Exxon - Mobil Corp. to develop fuel from algae.

Working with biological, chemical and physical processes, her projects range from growing algae under florescent lights to digging up mud samples and assembling large - scale microbial fuel cells.

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.

Al Darzins, a contributor to the report and group manager with the National Bioenergy Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, stressed in an interview that algae is far less developed, technologically, than biodiesel fuel or corn ethanol.

That's bad news for the climate, because the ocean is responsible for absorbing at least one quarter of the CO2 that humans load into the air through fossil fuel burning and other activities — and it is the action of foraminifera and other tiny shell - building animals, along with plants like algae that lock it away safely for millennia.

The report also predicts extreme rain events could pollute lakes and streams due to nutrient run - off, noting that a heavy rainfall in 2012 combined with a particularly warm year fueled a massive algae bloom in Lake Auburn.

Algae represent one of many available biodiesel feedstocks that can be cost - competitive with fossil fuels, he explained.

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.»

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.

Aviation Biofuel Confirmed: Biofuels Better Than Fossil Fuels in Jet Engines - Scaling Them Up is the Major Problem New Algae - Based Aviation Fuel Passes Key ASTM Tests for Jet Fuel KLM Schedules First Biofuel Test Flight with Passengers

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Another fossil fuel company investing in algae: BP has announced that it will be partnering with Martek Biosciences to work on advancing development of conversion of sugars into biodiesel, using Martek's «unique algae - based technologies and intellectual property.

photo: jurveston via flickr Algae biofuels are probably the most touted future hope to replace large amounts of petroleum - based liquid fuels with a renewable source.

The series B equity will help the company build out its operations with a target of producing 10,000 barrels per day of fuel from algae and help it operate at commercial scale within three to five years.

A shift to «third - generation» biofuels — mainly algae and salt - tolerant «halophytes» irrigated with sea water — leads to 15 % biofuel penetration of the US fuel mix in 2014, with a growth trend of 4 %.

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.