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Algae and Water Energy
Could the energy cost of moving water sink the burgeoning algae industry? C&EN recently checked in with a number of leading algae-growing firms to learn more about their current plans for profiting...
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Cleantech Stocks Get Thumbs Up
Given the stock turmoil today and yesterday, recent earnings reports from IPO’d cleantech firms may be flying under the radar for most people. And to call them “earnings” reports is a bit generous,...
View ArticleUS Cleantech firms in white-knuckle mode
There has been one positive piece of news this week for the cleantech sector – Solazyme is part of a $12 million grant to supply the U.S. Navy with 450,000 gal of biofuel. Solazyme’s algal oil will be...
View ArticleAdvanced Biofuels: pipedream or solid investment?
I read with much amusement this week two dueling editorials about advanced biofuels; one from the Wall Street Journal and the other - a reaction piece – from Biofuels Digest. One was pr0 and one...
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Biofuels from Seaweed
The concept of making biofuels from seaweed has been floating around as an idea for a while now, but this week there were a few real news items about it. Well, I consider it real news when it makes the...
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Algae Ponds: the lovers and the haters
This week’s issue of C&EN includes some news from algae-based biofuels firm Sapphire Energy. The company is reporting its first harvests of algae biomass from a large, outdoor algae farm in New...
View ArticleGiant Gobs of Algae Coming From Solazyme
Starting soon, oil-producing algae will be replicating at B-horror-movie quantities. Imagine a lab coat-wearing scientist running into the street shouting “300,000 metric tons!” while scores of...
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It’s Actually Happening: Military biofuels grants
Never has such a small government payout generated such a busy PR reaction. Late last weeek – and very quietly – the Defense Department awarded three biofuels firms $16 million to craft plans for...
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Little Green Feedstocks
It sounds like something from a greenskeeper’s nightmare – certain folks have plans to grow algae and dandelions on purpose, and in large quantities. Algenol’s Paul Woods and his cyanobacteria. Credit:...
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Big Growth Seen for Biobased Materials and Chemicals
Technologies for – and commercialization of – materials and chemicals made from a variety of biobased feedstocks “have reached an inflection point” and are poised to grow significantly over the next...
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