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Biocentric Energy (BEHL) Lowest Cost/Highest Production yield per acre. No competition for this monster, Biocentric will dominate the algae market and help make the world a better place.
No one else post here or what???????????? Better watch this company. To bad looks like its private.
http://www.greenbiostechnologies.com/info.html
Also watch cics, gers, esym.
here is a good link on bio fuels company's
http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/biofuels-digest-index-component-stocks/
This whole field is starting to take off again.
Dupont Danisco: cellulosic ethanol ready to be commercialized
By Anna Austin
Report posted May 22, 2009, at 2:37 p.m. CST
The Biotechnology Industry Organization recently hosted a briefing on the progress companies are making in bringing advanced biofuels to the marketplace, and indicated it is confident that the advanced biofuel requirements of the Renewable Fuel Standard can be met.
The current cellulosic biofuel mandate is set at 1 billion gallons by 2013, with additional annual increases to 16 billion gallons in 2022. The advanced biofuel requirement also includes 1 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel by 2012.
Speakers at the briefing included DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC Vice President of Commercial and Public Affairs Jack Huttner; Gevo Inc. CEO Patrick Gruber; and Novozymes North America President Lars Hansen.
Dupont Danisco’s cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant in Vonore, Tenn., should be operational in December 2009, according to Huttner. “Our objective is to build a couple of demonstration plants, and then license our technology to biorefinery companies throughout North America and the world,” he said. "From our point of view, [cellulosic ethanol] technology is ready for commercialization. This is no longer a technology that is five years from being commercially viable.”
http://www.ethanolproducer.com/article.jsp?article_id=5692
Here is another good article.
Algal Biomass Organization Announces New Directors
Industry organization expands leadership group to help accelerate growth of algae industry
On Wednesday May 27, 2009, 2:20 pm EDT
Buzz up! Print SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) today announced the appointment of four new board members, and the re-election of an existing board member. The additional board members will help the organization increase its efforts to help develop the industry as increasingly algal biomass is being considered as a vital resource for clean and renewable energy.
The board members represent a wide range of industries, organizations and companies, in keeping with the ABO’s commitment to developing a membership from across the value chain. The board makeup now includes representatives from academia, professional services, technology and project development and end-users. Newly elected directors include:
Dr. Ira Levine, associate professor at the University of Southern Maine and vice president of Biological Services, Inc.
Dr. Margaret McCormick, general manager, Bio-based Materials Program at Targeted Growth, Inc.
John Pierce, member at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and one of the leaders if of its Renewable Energy and CleanTech Practice, as well as the catalyst for the formation of the ABO
Elizabeth Willett, business development and commercial manager, Mars Symbioscience, a division of Mars, Inc., and
Dr. Philip Pienkos, a founding board member of ABO and supervisor of the Applied Biology Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who was re-elected to a second term.
Founded one year ago, the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and advocate for the development of commercially-viable transportation and power generation fuels as well as other non-energy applications for algal biomass. The volunteer-led organization has a number of operating sub-committees aimed at helping member companies and advancing the industry, including Technical Standards, Government Relations and Peer Review. The ABO also produces the annual Algae Biomass Summit, which last year drew more than 700 attendees from more than 20 countries.
Membership in ABO has expanded significantly in the past year, with dozens of individuals, companies, organizations, and research institutions joining to support the industry. Members of the organization, which recently held its first annual meeting in Washington, D.C., met with several members of Congress and their staffers to help educate them on the potential of algae as a key renewable and sustainable fuel and energy source. This outreach is increasingly important given the $786.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act recently pledged to accelerate advanced biofuels research and sustainable energy development, including algae.
There were three key requests they made to elected officials. First, that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) should be amended to either include algae, or to be technology neutral; second, that algae-derived fuels should receive tax parity with incentives for biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol; third, that Congress should make funding opportunities currently available to cellulosic biofuel producers similarly accessible to producers of algae-based products and processes.
The ABO is currently accepting papers and presentation abstracts for the 2009 Algae Biomass Summit via the website http://www.algalbiomass.org/events/2009ABS through July 5, 2009. Final decisions will be made and an agenda will be posted on the website shortly after.
Information about the ABO and the Algae Biomass Summit is available via the organization’s website at www.algalbiomass.org.
About the ABO
The Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and advocate for the development of commercially-viable transportation and power generation fuels as well as other non-energy applications for algal biomass. Its membership is comprised of people, companies and organizations across the value chain. More information about ABO, including its leadership, membership, costs, benefits and members and their affiliations, is available at the website: www.algalbiomass.org.
Contact:
Scoville PR for ABO
John Williams, 206-625-0075
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Algal-Biomass-Organization-bw-15360507.html?.v=1
Lot of interesting stuff on that link. I like this also.
http://www.ethanolproducer.com/index.jsp
Here is a good vid.
Cellulosic Ethanol: "Green Gold"
http://www.greentechmedia.com/sponsored/cleantech-innovations
Nice magazine. I get the hard copy also. Whish the showed the whole mag with ads online like the did for awhile.
Big Oil Warms to Ethanol and Biofuel Companies
Michael Stravato for The New York Times
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/business/energy-environment/27biofuels.html?ref=business
Joe Judice stands nears a patch of tall energy cane that he grows in Louisiana for Verenium Corporation, a small company that is testing new forms of biofuels in alliance with BP.
Published: May 26, 2009
JENNINGS, La. — For decades, the big oil companies and the farm lobby have been fighting about ethanol, with the farmers pushing to produce more of it and the refiners arguing it was a boondoggle that would do little to solve the country’s energy problems.
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Go to Blog » So why are technicians for BP, the giant oil company, now working at an experimental ethanol plant in this old Louisiana oil town, helping to make it more efficient?
The erstwhile enemies, it turns out, are gradually learning to get along, as refiners increasingly see a need to get involved in ethanol production. Ethanol, made chiefly from corn, now represents about 9 percent of the country’s market for liquid fuels. And the percentage is growing year after year because of federal mandates. With the nation’s thirst for gasoline, and the ethanol that is blended into it, expected to revive when the economy does, the oil companies want to be in a position to take full advantage.
The interest expressed by big oil companies is coming in the nick of time for small companies that desperately need capital and cannot find it these days in the private markets. Take the case of Verenium Corporation, a small company based in Cambridge, Mass., that here in Jennings is testing new forms of biofuels in alliance with BP. Instead of ethanol made from food crops, the partners are devising a version from grasses in the sugar cane family.
The experiments here are preparation for building a second, $250 million plant in Florida with the capacity to produce 36 million gallons a year of new biofuels — the first commercial plant of its type built with oil company money and expertise. Verenium scientists have already developed a secret sauce of enzymes and microbes that ferment and distill biomass into ethanol. Now BP is contributing technical expertise aimed at getting the temperatures and pressures in the vats just right.
Commercial success is not assured, of course. But the fact that a major oil company has even made an alliance to go commercial with Verenium is considered a breakthrough by many ethanol executives.
“Any time you get Big Oil into the game, that changes the paradigm because nobody can go large scale chemical engineering like Big Oil,” said Brent Erickson, an executive vice president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a trade group.
Only two years ago, BP had only a miniscule investment in biofuels. But since then the company has committed $1.5 billion to various projects. Along with its work with Verenium, it entered a partnership with a Brazilian concern last year to produce ethanol from sugar cane. Lessons learned in Louisiana may eventually help convert Brazilian cane into more advanced biofuels, researchers say, producing a potentially vast new reserve for BP.
BP also speaks with optimism about a partnership with DuPont to test production of biobutanol, an advanced liquid alcohol fuel that is made from the same feed stocks as advanced ethanols and is compatible with existing pipelines and car engines. Executives say they hope to begin making the fuel in large amounts by 2013.
“We can see biofuels as being a really big potential reservoir,” said Phil New, president of the company’s BP Biofuels unit. “For an energy firm to get into sugar cane farming is a pretty big move.”
Oil companies are still skeptical about conventional ethanol, especially the type made from corn, which they say corrodes pipelines and is inefficient.
The plant here is just one sign that the big oil companies are now at least grudgingly accepting biofuels — particularly those made from wastes and nonfood sources, which do not bear corn ethanol’s stigma of raising food prices.
The big change came in the 2007 energy law enacted by Congress that set ambitious mandates for refineries to blend increasing amounts of biofuels over the years. By 2022 they will be obliged to blend 36 billion gallons of biofuels, or more than three times current levels.
“If the government is going to make a market happen, we needed to be able to participate commercially in that market,” Mr. New said.
The companies also say that as crude oil becomes ever more difficult and expensive to find, biofuels can bolster their reserves.
“There will be a need for all these fuels,” said Graeme Sweeney, executive vice president for future fuels and carbon dioxide at Royal Dutch Shell. He predicted that the 1 percent of the world’s transportation fuels that are biofuels today “could easily be 10 percent in the next decade or so.”
Shell was the first of the Big Oil companies to venture into the new biofuels, getting its toes wet in 2002 by providing money to a Canadian company called Iogen Corporation to research making ethanol from plant waste. Shell would not discuss how much money it is now investing in biofuels, but said it had quadrupled biofuel research spending since 2007.
Shell has also formed partnerships with a variety of small companies at work on improving enzymes that break down various plants and waste materials for ethanol, making fuels from algae and even biogasoline from sugary liquids derived from plant materials. Chevron has formed a joint venture with Weyerhaeuser to develop biofuels from wood waste.
And Valero Energy Corporation, the country’s largest petroleum refiner, has snapped up seven corn ethanol plants from VeraSun Energy in recent months since VeraSun filed for bankruptcy protection last fall. Valero has suggested that it could transform the plants for newer blends of ethanol.
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“If we depend too heavily on the big oil companies to drive the biofuel agenda,” warned Jeff Broin, chief executive of the ethanol producer Poet, “we’ll be using large volumes of oil for many, many years to come.”
But taken together, the research projects and deals are a sharp contrast to the scaled-back oil company projects in other alternative energy sources like hydrogen and solar. And the support is very welcome for small entrepreneurial companies that are long on new technologies and short on capital.
“With any start-up company, people say `Wow, but is it going to work?’ ” said Randy Cortright, founder and chief operating officer of Virent Energy Systems. His company wants to make a biogasoline from plant sugars that is chemically similar to gasoline produced by conventional petroleum refineries.
He said Shell’s investment raised his company’s credibility with lenders “by giving their vote of confidence in this technology, spending resources and providing their own people for development.” Shell also will eventually distribute the product, he said, “and they already have the infrastructure for taking the product to the fuel pump so the consumer can use it.”
Arnold R. Klann, chief executive of BlueFire Ethanol, a company that converts municipal waste into ethanol and is looking for financing to build plants, said lenders wanted to know that an ethanol company had credible long-term customers to generate revenues. He said he had draft contracts with two major oil companies he could not yet identify that were interested in investing in his operations and using his fuels.
“There is tremendous interest by the oil companies to invest in these first-of-a-kind projects,” Mr. Klann said. “Where they were initially investing very tentatively in new technology development, in the last year they have begun to finally invest in companies that are building commercial production facilities.”
Here in Jennings, BP technicians advise Verenium technicians on what types of metals to use to line their pipes, what kind of valves will last longest and how to position blades in fermenting tanks to best mix chemicals and feed stocks. It is all an effort to reduce the price of the product to quickly compete with conventional ethanol and perhaps, eventually, with gasoline.
“We are the chef, and they are more like the restaurant manager,” said Mark G. Eichenseer, Verenium’s vice president for operations. “We have the recipes, and they have the experience and know-how to select the pots and pans.”
Nice to see. I have lots of DD's on this will post when I get some free time. Thanks. This should be a great board.
Great, I will put them up!
Thanks for putting the board up. Here is a company that some may want to put on watch list.
The tech they developed to crack the oil from the algae is simple. The vid on home page shows it.
http://www.originoil.com/
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This board is designed for all cellulosic ethanol and algae biofuel companies.
OriginOil’s patent-pending, breakthrough technology can provide the world with an endless supply of cost-competitive and environment-friendly oil to displace petroleum. Next Generation Technologies
Unlike many current approaches to algae oil cultivation, OriginOil is employing several next-generation technologies to greatly enhance algae cultivation and oil extraction, and to allow scalable industrialization of this process to make algae a high-yield, cost-competitive replacement for petroleum.
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Algae reproduce by cellular division. They divide and divide until they fill the space available to them and have consumed all nutrients in it.
In the right environment, fresh algae cells grow and divide exponentially, doubling every few hours, while absorbing all available nutrients, CO2 and light energy.
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OriginOil's industrial process, with its patent pending devices and methods, optimizes this environment to help algae cells grow at their natural maximum rate - achieving a doubling of the algae population in as little as a few hours. The process then goes on to control the harvesting and oil extraction cycles in a high-speed, round-the-clock, streamlined industrial production of algae oil.
Instead of waiting hundreds of millions years for algae to become oil, OriginOil's breakthrough technology and process can transform algae into oil in a matter of days.
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