FIRST ALGAE-FUELED CAR CROSSING THE COUNTRY

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:47:08 +0000

The initial algae-fueled automobile called the Algaeus has started the expostulate opposite the country. The car, the converted plug-in Prius given with the nickel-metal hydride battery as well as filled with the mix of 5 percent algae as well as 95 percent gasoline from Sapphire Energy, set out from San Francisco yesterday as well as will take 10 days to have it to Washington, DC.

The organisation obliged for the Algaeus, the Veggie Van Organization, expects the automobile will usually need twenty-five gallons of fuel to have the complete trip.

Yes, the 5 percent mix of algae doesn’t only vigilance the begin of an algae revolution, though it does meant which swell is being done upon fuel with good intensity as well as this highway outing lets people see the swell in action. The categorical indicate of the Algaeus is to uncover the capability of algae to be used in the customary engine.

The highway outing isn’t being done only to uncover off the algae car, though to additionally foster the movie FUEL which discusses solutions for the coherence upon unfamiliar oil as well as opens upon Sep 18th, the day the algae automobile will strech the destination.

Sapphire Energy skeleton to furnish dual million gallons of algae fuel per year for the subsequent dual years with hopes of it apropos cost-competitive in the subsequent couple of years during $60 to $80 the barrel. The association intends to emanate the 10 percent algae mix for the destiny blurb products. Sapphire is additionally producing a single million gallons of algae-based jet fuel this year.

via Inhabitat

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EXXON EMBRACING ALGAE BIOFUELS

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:38:54 +0000

Exxon Mobil has voiced which they’re jumping in to a biofuel business. The oil hulk is investing $600 million in researching algae-based biofuels which would constraint CO2 as good as perform as good as oil-based fuels.

The association is teaming up with Synthetic Genomics Inc. to genetically operative algae strains for testing. If a partners have been successful in building a hothouse gas-capturing fuel, Exxon will afterwards deposit billions upon a prolongation of a fuel.

The association envisions fixation a algae farms nearby energy plants as good as alternative vital CO2 emitters to feed a algae as good as to assistance quell a stroke of those businesses. Exxon pronounced they suppose a successful blurb prolongation of an algae-based fuel could take up to a decade.

This try isn’t a company’s initial incursion in to CO capture. In January, they voiced they were spending $170 million upon CO constraint projects during their healthy gas plants. These projects have been positively some-more financially driven than environmentally, though if a world can good from their discoveries, it’s value profitable attention.

via Wall Street Journal

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