Modern biofuels have been touted as a greener alternative to petrol and diesel since the early 1900s. It seems like a good idea on paper, and they do work – but their use and production doesn’t come ...

Though there is much mention of the promise of algal biofuels and word of their commercial development, it seems timely to view what precisely has been achieved in terms of significant algal biofuel ...

This article was originally published in December 2013 on the Energy Realities blog. Algae have all the right ingredients for turning carbon dioxide into biofuel, but the precise recipe still needs to ...

The complete genetic makeup of a species of ecologically important algae, which may aid in biofuel production, has been sequenced by scientists. This is only the second time that researchers have ...

Researchers have developed a method for greatly enhancing biofuel production in tiny marine algae. Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have developed a method for ...

Along with camelina and jatropha, marine algae is a front runner in the search for a renewable feedstock for production of commercial quantities of biofuel. While marine algae produce lipid oils, fat ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana State University researchers are exploring a potential breakthrough in producing biofuel ...

A new report from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) in Berkeley projects that development of cost-competitive algae biofuel production will require much more long-term research, development and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Water management company Aqualia plans to launch a commercial-scale demonstration project using waste water to cultivate algae for biofuel production, which could fuel 400 vehicles, ...

OriginOil, an L.A. startup working on technology that can extract oil from algae, is looking to turn a profit. The firm, founded by high-tech investor Riggs Eckelberry in 2007 and backed by several ...

Algae could provide an endless source of biofuel, however current production methods tend to be costly and time-intensive – first you have to grow the algae, and then you extract oily lipids and ...

The U.S. is sitting on top of a fuel goldmine, it seems. Not shale gas or crude oil, but fresh water and suitable land to produce 25 billion gallons of algae-based biofuel--a month's worth of the ...