Interest in Ocean Power Surges

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While searching for news articles on algal biodiesel, I accidentally came across this news item, sounds interesting, though long-termish. Not really to do with algae, but something to keep in the back of our minds...

Summary:

New projects seeking ways to use the ocean's thermal energy, tidal power and wave action are under way from Maine to Oregon to Hawaii in the United States and are widespread in Europe.

The emphasis on ocean power is growing as fossil fuel becomes harder to find, its price climbs and environmental concern mounts over global warming, said Hans Krock, an engineer and president of OCEES International Inc. in Honolulu.

Ocean thermal power plants, which generate electricity from the temperature difference between the tropics' warm surface water and deep cold water, could be built on land in several hundred areas around the globe's equatorial zones and also could be constructed as floating plants.

Organizations mentioned: Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority, Electric Power Research Institute, Ocean Power Technologies, OCEES

Personalities mentioned: Roger Bedard, ocean power leader of the Electric Power Research Institute, Ron Baird, CEO of the Natural Energy Laboratory, Andy Trenka, Ocean Power Expert @ NREL

See the full article here

Ref web sites:

Energy Information Administration: www.eia.doe.gov

National Renewable Energy Laboratory: www.nrel.gov

Electric Power Research Institute on ocean energy: www.epri.com/oceanenergy

OCEES International Inc.: www.ocees.com

Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority: www.nelha.org

Ocean Power Technologies: www.oceanpowertechnologies.com

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A Useful Oil from Algae Forum

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From what I understand, the folks who run this forum also co-ordinate the yahoo groups on Oil from Algae @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oil_from_algae/

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Solix Biofuels

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Came across a company by name Solix Biofuels in a yahoo mail group on oil from algae ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oil_from_algae/ ) ...the note states that Solix Biofuels is a developer of massively scalable photo-bioreactors for the production of biodiesel and other valuable bio-commodities from algae. The Company is currently building its prototype reactor at Colorado State University and developing the
biological systems (algae strains) in order to commercialize the production of oil from algae

Not able to find much more about the company at this stage, am afraid, but perhaps worth keeping a lookout for more news from the co?

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Aquaflow Bionomic (NZ) to Join Girvan Institute (US)

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NZ Biofuel Developer First in NZ Invited to Join Prestigious U.S. Research Hot-House, the Girvan Institute

Marlborough-based biofuel developer, Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, has made another breakthrough as the first New Zealand company to be invited to join the prestigious Girvan Institute of Technology in the United States.

Aquaflow recently announced it was the first in the world to commercially produce bio-diesel fuel from algae sourced from Marlborough sewerage ponds.

The Girvan Institute is a non-profit, public benefit corporation established to speed up the development of cutting edge technologies into useful products and services. Girvan’s affiliates and partners include global research labs, Fortune 1000 companies, small and medium high-tech companies and a number of private equity and venture capital firms.

Read more from Scoop, New Zealand here

Companies/organizations mentioned: Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, Aquaflow Bionomic Inc., Girvan Institute.
Personalities mentioned:
Aquaflow director Nick Gerritsen, Girvan chief operating officer Evan M. Epstein
Other Acquaflow staff mentioned: Renewable energy developers Vicki Buck and Barrie Leay, CEO Teresa Williams, company’s technical expert Bill Rucks.

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Algae May Produce Biofuels - UPI

A rather standard news item from United Press International

Companies/organizations mentioned:
1. Kibbutz Ketura, Israel-based Alga Technologies
2. AlgaTech
3. Cambridge, Mass.-based GreenFuel Technologies Corp.
4. U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy division

Personalities mentioned:
1. Amir Drory

Also discusses:

1. Fuel economy of biofuel and biodiesel
2. Tax incentives and credits for retailers and blenders of biodiesel and ethanol
3. Ethanol blenders and retailers eligibility for the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit.

See full article here

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MIT Energy's Manhattan Project

Solar cells made from spinach. Algae-based biofuel fattened on greenhouse gas. Plasma-powered turbo engines. These are just some of the technologies being developed by a Manhattan Project-style research effort for new energy technologies at MIT....

Scientists at MIT are undertaking a big, ambitious, university-wide program to develop innovative energy tech under the auspices of the school's Energy Research Council.

"The urgent challenge of our time (is) clean, affordable energy to power the world," said MIT President Susan Hockfield.

Inaugurated last year, the project is likened by Hockfield to MIT's contribution to radar -- a key technology that helped win World War II.

"As the example of radar suggests, when MIT arrays its capabilities against an important problem ... we can make an important contribution," said Hockfield in an e-mail...

Some of the projects: Spinach solar power, Silicon superstrings, Laptop powered Hybrids, Tubular battery tech, Optimised air-conditioners, Hybrid without the hybrid, Generating Car's Electricity Photoelectrically, Coal-fired biofuels...

Read more from here

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Grow Your Own? American Scientist Online

Here is a balanced article on the possibilities of (and problems with) algal biodiesel...Author: David Schneider, Magazine: American Scientist Online.

Useful read.

Summary & excerpts

1. ...ethanol, which contains only two-thirds the energy of gasoline gallon for gallon, whereas biodiesel ends up being only 2 percent less fuel-efficient than petroleum-based diesel.
2. Conservationists have been warning that palm oil production poses a dire threat to the dwindling population of orangutans, for example, which exist in the wild only in Borneo and Sumatra.
3. Some varieties of algae can contain 50 percent or more oil, and grow much more rapidly than ordinary cultivars—with doubling times that can be as short as several hours.
4...challenges involved in devising a bioreactor that costs little and supports sufficient productivity that excessive land use is not a factor.
5. ...productivities of about 100 grams of algae per meter squared per day (about three times what was demonstrated during the Aquatic Species Program) is needed to achieve commercial viability...
6. "It's no real difficult feat to turn nutrients into algae," says Kent SeaTech's director of research, Jon C. Van Olst, "but how do you get it out of the water? They are almost impossible to harvest."
7. "Growing algae is cheap...but certainly not as cheap as growing palm oil."
8. ..."In the laboratory, you can create some very efficient bioreactors, but it just isn't scalable"...Asked whether biodiesel will ever be made this way: "Not from microalgae—I just can't see it."

Companies & individuals mentioned:
Cos/organizations: US EPA, US DoE & Aquatic Species Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Veridium Corp., GreenFuel Technologies, Kent SeaTech Corporation, John R. Benemann, Cyanotech Corporation
Persons: Michael S Briggs, David J Bayless, Isaac Berzin, Jon C. Van Olst, John R. Benemann, Gerald R. Cysewski

Read the full article here

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Transforming wastewater into green gold

Thanks to Michael Cohen for sending me this note. Michael Cohen is a faculty @ Sonoma State Univ., and Catherine a biology student at the university.

From The Press Democrat - see oringial link

Algae-based fuel: Transforming wastewater into green gold
By MICHAEL COHEN AND CATHERINE LAURIA

Global warming, war in the Middle East and - closer to home - millions of gallons of excess treated wastewater.

A potential common solution to these disparate problems lies in the capacity of algae to convert wastewater to fuel. Sounds fanciful, but with help from the sun, algae cultivated on our ever-growing supply of wastewater could satisfy our community's demands for fuel that are currently met by imported gasoline and diesel.

Peoples of the future will marvel at our profligacy in dumping treated wastewater into natural waterways. Locally, we have already begun to find utility for this water through agricultural irrigation and by recharging of The Geysers for geothermal energy.

But perhaps its greatest beneficial use to society - as an algal growth medium - has yet to be exploited.Treated wastewater contains levels of nutrients that can support dense algal growth. Using the sun's energy, algae convert carbon dioxide into biomass while removing excess nutrients from the water. Technology to cultivate and harvest large amounts of algae already exists as do the means to extract their lipids and process them into fuels that can power our cars and trucks (fossil fuels are after all mainly derived from dead algae - not dinosaurs).

Facilities for commercial production of algae-based fuels are now a reality: Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation has begun making biodiesel from algae in New Zealand, Biofuel Systems SL will start operations in Spain in 2007 and GreenFuel Technologies has just started a partnership with an energy company in New York.

Algae can also perform another valuable service: breaking down a variety of organic contaminants that survive other wastewater treatment processes.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, 111 out of 139 streams sampled in 1999 and 2000 contained one or more organic wastewater contaminants, including human and veterinary drugs, natural and synthetic hormones, detergent metabolites, plasticizers, insecticides and fire retardants.





Last year toxicologists in Texas reported finding fluoxetine, the active ingredient in Prozac, in the brain, liver and muscle tissue of fish residing in a municipal effluent-dominated stream. The potential good news is that some algae can degrade some of these emerging contaminants.

Thus, long-term benefits of a Sonoma County program that used wastewater to "grow" biofuels would be environmental (cleaner water and lower carbon dioxide emissions) and economic (providing a reliable local source of fuel that doesn't require entry into foreign lands).

The major difficulty in implementing this vision is not practical but political: algal-based fuels lack a powerful advocate. The city of Santa Rosa has shown foresight on energy issues. Perhaps the current pressure on the city to find ways to dispose of excess treated wastewater can serve as a catalyst for our community to trailblaze the way from oil- to algae-dependence.

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Sunflower Electric - Recycling Waste & By-products

One more example of how gradually traditional power generation companies have started integrating their operations with alternative fuels, including algal oil.

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The planned expansion of the coal-fired generating capacity at Sunflower Electric Power Corp.'s Holcomb complex isn't the only energy project in the works here.

Teaming with the Kansas Bioscience Authority and a Kansas State University body, company officials are moving forward with plans for a series of parallel, on-site facilities that also would generate ethanol, biodiesel and methane. Byproducts would be recycled among the various facilities, boosting production efficiencies and minimizing the amount of unused waste...

"When the cycle is complete, there is no waste," said Sunflower President"...

Individual technologies that would help produce the biofuels would all be combined into one complex - the Sunflower Integrated Bioenergy Center. "If we're able to build this, there'll be people flying in to see how it's done".

Sunflower, which is based in Hays, plans to build three 700-megawatt coal-fired generators adjacent to its existing 360-megawatt plant starting next year. The bioenergy center would consist of an ethanol plant, a biodiesel plant, an algae reactor and an anaerobic digester.

As envisioned in a complex flow chart outlining the plans, waste from one facility would be used to help power another. For instance, flue gas, or combustion exhaust, from the coal-fired generators would be fed into the algae reactor, which would produce the algae oil that would power the biodiesel plant.

Manure, animal fat, paunch and wastewater from area feedlots, packing plants and dairies also would figure heavy in the mix. Fat, more properly known as tallow, would help run the biodiesel plant, while wastewater and manure would be fed into the anaerobic digester, which would generate the methane that would help run the ethanol plant....

...Funding likely would come from the private developers involved. The feds and the Kansas Bioscience Authority, an independent state body that promotes biosciences, could also pitch in.

Work on the first element, probably the ethanol plant, could start as soon as next year....

...The rising price of petroleum on global markets is making such projects more and more feasible and attractive. The presence of feedlots, dairies and related entities, meanwhile, makes southwest Kansas a natural locale for them.

For the full news item see link - http://www.hutchnews.com/news/regional/stories/Sunflower082406.shtml
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Irish Company Steorn Claims Free Energy Technology

And now this...

Irish Company Challenges Scientists to Test Free Energy Technology

An Irish company has thrown down the gauntlet to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy.

The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy -- a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics.

It claims the technology can be used to supply energy for virtually all devices, from mobile phones to cars.


Sean McCarthy, Steorn's chief executive officer, said they had issued the challenge for 12 physicists to rigorously test the technology so it can be developed.

"What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said.

"The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created. Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy," he told Ireland's RTE radio.

One of the basic principles of physics is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.

McCarthy said a big obstacle to overcome was the disbelief that what they had developed was even possible.

"For the first six months that we looked at it we literally didn't believe it ourselves. Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on," he said.

"But we have been unable to get significant scientific interest in it. We have had scientists come in, test it and, off the record, they are quite happy to admit that it works.

"But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge," McCarthy said.

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Israeli Scientists Exploring Use of Algae as Fuel

Founded in 1999 to develop and commercialize micro-algae-derived products for the nutraceutical and cosmeceutical industries, Algatech's production facility in Kibbutz Ketura will soon begin collaborating with Israeli-US start-up GreenFuel Technologies Corporation to work towards a common goal: developing cost effective, energy efficient fuel made from micro-algae feeding off of carbon dioxide emissions ...

See a brief news article in this regard - from Israel National News

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Oil from Algae Prize - The O Prize

Interesting!

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A technology prize to shift oil production to algae.
By Jim Bowery
Copyright July 3, 2006
The author grants the right to copy and distribute without modification.
Introduction

The O-Prize is designed to realize the great potential of oil from algae with the lowest risk over the shortest time.

The potential of algae oil is to, in stages:

1) Enhance neurological development via nutritional supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids and,
2) Provide an abundant renewable source of green or environmentally friendly fuel oil...."

Read more from: http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/oprize.html

Will keep you updated on further developments in this domain

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Biodiesel from Algae in Sewerage Ponds

See the link for a May 2006 article of biodiesel from sewerage algae in New Zealand - http://www.eroei.com/articles_06/17_may_06_biodesel_algae.html

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Summary of Aquatic Species Program

A blog earlier, I posted a link that provided the entire report of the US dept of energy's aquatic species program that looked into biodiesel production from algae...while possibly the most important research report available to the public so far, it is quite a long one - over 300 pages - and not every one of us could have enough time to read through it...

For all those who belong to a world more hectic than mine, here is a summary of that report - http://www.fuelandfiber.com/Athena/biodiesel_from_algae_es.pdf

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Summary of Aquatic Species Program

A blog earlier, I posted a link that provided the entire report of the US dept of energy's aquatic species program that looked into biodiesel production from algae...while possibly the most important research report available to the public so far, it is quite a long one - over 300 pages - and not every one of us could have enough time to read through it...

For all those who belong to a world more hectic than mine, here is a summary of that report - http://www.fuelandfiber.com/Athena/biodiesel_from_algae_es.pdf

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Aquatic Species Program of US Dept of Energy

The link provided below is probably the most seminal research conducted so far in the field of algal biodiesel...by the US dept of energy...

It is a long file, but provides excellent info: A Look-back at the Aquatic Species Program -
http://www.biodieselamerica.org/files/articles/Biodiesel%20from%20Algae.pdf

Hope this is of use

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Widescale Production of Biodiesel from Algae

This is one of the oft-quoted web pages for large-scale biodiesel production from algae - http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html , from University of New Hampshire, the key person in this group is Michael Briggs

Hope you find the link to be of help

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Widescale Production of Biodiesel from Algae

This is one of the oft-quoted web pages for large-scale biodiesel production from algae - http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html , from University of New Hampshire, the key person in this group is Michael Briggs

Hope you find the link to be of help

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Plankton to Provide Clean Oil - Spanish Research Study

Got this link suggestion from Michael Cohen, a faculty at Sonoma State University, California - thanks!

Plankton to Provide Clean Oil - see full news item

"A system for producing energy from marine algae, to replace fossil fuels and reduce pollution, has been developed by Spanish researchers and will be operational in late 2007...

...Biofuel Systems SL (BFS), the Spanish company developing the project, told IPS that "the system will produce massive amounts of biopetroleum from phytoplankton, in a limited space and at a very moderate cost."

The executive explained that the photo-bioreactor to be produced by his company is not the same thing as algae-based biodiesel projects from other countries...

BFS, with the support of the University of Alicante, "has designed a totally new system for producing biopetroleum -- not biodiesel -- by means of an energy converter," he explained.

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I would request you to read the article in full from the link provided above, it provides some useful data

What is really intriguing is the claim that they can produce bio-petroleum from these phytoplanktons...Guess I need to do some more reading in this regard, since from what I have learnt, the triglyceride present in the feedstock such as fixed oils and algae oil can be converted into biodiesel though transesterification, I am not aware of a process that converts these oils into petroleum/gasoline. I'd be grateful if anyone of you could provide some details in this regard

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Btw, have you checked out the new open source project for biodiesel from Algae we have kicked off at Algae? Admittedly, this is just a thought and an experiment at this stage, but we have been getting quite a few enthusiastic responses, do check out algOS - Oil from Algae Open Source @ Oilgae

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