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Share Structure
Market Value1 $60,849 a/o May 04, 2012
Shares Outstanding 608,491,180 a/o May 01, 2012
Float 67,162,107 a/o May 01, 2012
Authorized Shares 1,998,000,000 a/o May 01, 2012
RECENT FILINGS
Latest Report Mar 28, 2012 Annual Report
Apr 23, 2012 Attorney Letter with Respect to Current Information
Algae Farm (USA) 1Q12 Update
DATE: 04/03/2012 @ 6:00AM
Algae Farm (USA), Inc. (Pink Sheets: ALGF), announces that it has completed development of its proprietary Algapond indoor algae production system. This unique system is modular and scalable and can be used indoors anywhere where water and power are available. Algapond utilizes customized LED lighting, proprietary water movement and contamination features in both 200 and 400 gallon Algapond versions. "ALGF's technology and processes, specifically, growing and harvesting high yield predictable, reliable, scalable and sustainable algal biomass, algae oil and residual biomass in an indoor climate controlled environment separates us from our present competitors. Our technology is ready for commercialization and we are actively searching for viable strategic alliances and partnerships in the nutraceutical, cosmetic, bio-plastic and bio-fuel market sectors," said Rick Berman, President and CEO.
Algae Farm (USA) Trademark Registration
Date : 10/18/2011 @ 7:00AM
Algae Farm (USA), Inc. (Pink Sheets: ALGF), announces that on October 11, 2011 the United States Patent and Trademark Office registered Algae Farm as a trademark. "This successful trademark registration completes our first Intellectual Property filing, we will make an application for another trademark during this current financial quarter," said Rick Berman, CEO.
Algae Farm (USA) Notice of Acceptance of Statement of Use
Date : 09/15/2011 @ 9:20AM
Algae Farm (USA), Inc. (Pink Sheets: ALGF), Announces that the United States Patent Trademark Office has accepted the Statement of Use filed for its Algae Farm trademark application. The mark will now register and the registration certificate will issue in due course barring any extraordinary circumstances.
MM Trickery.....over last 2 weeks a total of 186,491 shares have been sold with sales like this 275, 138, 680, 127 and 136 anywhere between .01 to .08 cent values, TOTAL JOKE RIGHT!
SHARES ACTUALLY BOUGHT APPROX. 3 MILLION, PRIOR TO THAT WE HAD, OVER THE LAST MONTH WE APPROX. 35 MILLION SHARES TRADED MOSTLY BUYS....MY POINT THIS IS HEATING UP, NEXT PIECE OF NEWS WILL SEND THIS TO THE MOON! 52 WEEK HIGH WAS .01 AND WE ARE CURRENTLY SITTING AT .0006 NOT THE .0001 THAT THE MMS WANT YOU TO THINK, IMO THIS IS ON A MAJOR BREAKOUT ALERT! ONE OTHER KEY ASPECT, MR RICK BERMAN(CEO) OWNS 88% OF ALL THE OUTSTANDING SHARES SO AGAIN IMO DON'T ANTICIPATE A R/S.......ACTUALLY I CAN SEE ANOTHER REVERSE MERGER COMING IF ALL HIS TRADEMARKS AND PATENTS GO THROUGH. REMEMBER THIS N.A.S.A. BELIEVES IN ALGAE FOR FUEL!
NASA scientists have proposed an ingenious and remarkably resourceful process to produce "clean energy" biofuels, that cleans waste water, removes carbon dioxide from the air, retains important nutrients, and does not compete with agriculture for land or freshwater.
When astronauts go into space, they must bring everything they need to survive. Living quarters on a spaceship require careful planning and management of limited resources, which is what inspired the project called “Sustainable Energy for Spaceship Earth.” It is a process that produces "clean energy" biofuels very efficiently and very resourcefully.
"The reason why algae are so interesting is because some of them produce lots of oil," said Jonathan Trent, the lead research scientist on the Spaceship Earth project at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. “In fact, most of the oil we are now getting out of the ground comes from algae that lived millions of years ago. Algae are still the best source of oil we know."
Algae are similar to other plants in that they remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, produce oxygen as a by-product of photosynthesis, and use phosphates, nitrogen, and trace elements to grow and flourish. Unlike many plants, they produce fatty, lipid cells loaded with oil that can be used as fuel.
Land plants currently used to produce biodiesel and other fuels include soy, canola, and palm trees. For the sake of comparison, soy beans produce about 50 gallons of oil per acre per year; canola produces about 160 gallons per acre per year, and palms about 600 gallons per acre per year. But some types of algae can produce at least 2,000 gallons of oil per acre per year.
The basic problem is growing enough algae to meet our country's enormous energy-consumption demands. Although algae live in water, land-based methods are used to grow algae. Two land-based methods used today are open ponds and closed bioreactors. Open ponds are shallow channels filled with freshwater or seawater, depending on the kind of algae that is grown. The water is circulated with paddle wheels to keep the algae suspended and the pond aerated. They are inexpensive to build and work well to grow algae, but have the inevitable problem of water evaporation. To prevent the ponds from drying out or becoming too salty, conditions that kill the algae, an endless supply of freshwater is needed to replenish the evaporating water.
When closed bioreactors are used to grow algae, water evaporation is no longer the biggest problem for algae's mass-production. Bioreactors, enclosed hardware systems made of clear plastic or glass, present their own problems. They can be computer-controlled and monitored around the clock for a more bountiful supply of algae. However, storing water on land and controlling its temperature are the big problems, making them prohibitively expensive to build and operate. In addition, both systems require a lot of land.
"The inspiration I had was to use offshore membrane enclosures to grow algae. We're going to deploy a large plastic bag in the ocean, and fill it with sewage. The algae use sewage to grow, and in the process of growing they clean up the sewage," said Trent.
It is a simple, but elegant concept. The bag will be made of semi-permeable membranes that allow fresh water to flow out into the ocean, while retaining the algae and nutrients. The membranes are called “forward-osmosis membranes.” NASA is testing these membranes for recycling dirty water on future long-duration space missions. They are normal membranes that allow the water to run one way. With salt water on the outside and fresh water on the inside, the membrane prevents the salt from diluting the fresh water. It’s a natural process, where large amounts of fresh water flow into the sea.
Floating on the ocean's surface, the inexpensive plastic bags will be collecting solar energy as the algae inside produce oxygen by photosynthesis. The algae will feed on the nutrients in the sewage, growing rich, fatty cells. Through osmosis, the bag will absorb carbon dioxide from the air, and release oxygen and fresh water. The temperature will be controlled by the heat capacity of the ocean, and the ocean's waves will keep the system mixed and active.
When the process is completed, biofuels will be made and sewage will be processed. For the first time, harmful sewage will no longer be dumped into the ocean. The algae and nutrients will be contained and collected in a bag. Not only will oil be produced, but nutrients will no longer be lost to the sea. According to Trent, the system ideally is fail proof. Even if the bag leaks, it won’t contaminate the local environment. The enclosed fresh water algae will die in the ocean.
The bags are expected to last two years, and will be recycled afterwards. The plastic material may be used as plastic mulch, or possibly as a solid amendment in fields to retain moisture.
“We have to remember,” Trent said, quoting Marshall McLuhan: “we are not passengers on spaceship Earth, we are the crew.”
NASA has developed a system that captures carbon dioxide and helps to prevent pollution from wastewater while creating renewable algae biofuel, fertilizer and possibly animal feed, too.
NASA calls its system OMEGA, for Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae, self-contained bags of wastewater and fast-growing algae cultures that are designed to float in seawater off the coast of a landmass and produce biofuels, NASA hopes for fueling planes.
As the algae grow inside the bags, they absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide through the bags’ membranes and produce oxygen, which releases to the atmosphere through the membrane.
The algae also absorb nutrients, creating fresh water that passes easily through the membrane into the sea, acting as a next-level treatment phase, helping to reduce the risk of creating local dead zones.
The OMEGA system has been undergoing test runs at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant. A demonstration scale operation is now ready for its close-up, with a media tour planned for April 17.
OMEGA was developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California.
NASA claims the OMEGA system is far more efficient than conventional algae farming methods.
By growing the algae within a bag rather than in open ponds or channels, OMEGA eliminates the need for water-circulating equipment and virtually eliminates water loss due to evaporation.
OMEGA also reduces or eliminates the need for energy-sucking climate control systems that would be needed to regulate the temperature of land-based water storage facilities.
Aside from producing oil, fresh water and oxygen, the spent algae can be reclaimed for use as a fertilizer or soil enhancer. Researchers are also beginning to test algae as a feed supplement for livestock.
Equipment maintenance and lifecycle expenses are another important consideration for cost-effective algae farming, and OMEGA wins out here, too. The system involves few moving parts and the plastic tubes could be recycled when their useful life is up.
Algae, especially freshwater algae, is an attractive biofuel due to its ability to grow rapidly while producing lipid cells bursting with oil.
Other biofuel crops just can’t compete: according to NASA, some algae can produce more than 2,000 gallons of oil per acre per year, compared to only 600 gallons for palm. Soy beans fare even worse, at only 50 gallons per acre per year.
Legislators who are taking aim at the Obama Administration’s algae biofuel initiatives will once again have to rethink their plan if they want to take a potshot at OMEGA. The project was initially conceived as the Sustainable Energy for Spaceship Earth program at NASA under the Bush Administration in 2007, when Google provided some seed money for alternative energy research at Ames.
In 2010 a news report on attempts to increase federal funding for Omega sparked an investigation by NASA’s Office of the Inspector General, but no ethics violations were found and the dust appears to have settled.
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