15 Algae Biofuels Startups to Watch
by Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada on 03.28.08
Earth2Tech has a roundup of biofuel startups that are working on turning algae into fuel. We can't yet know what will happen; Some of these companies might become huge in the next few years, or they might be left in the dust by new developments (solar energy below $1/watt and advances in battery or hypercapacitor technology, for example). Only the future will tell, but in the meantime, they are worth keeping an eye on.
The companies are: GreenFuel Technologies, Solazyme, Blue Marble Energy, Inventure Chemical, Solena, Live Fuels, Solix Biofuels, Aurora Biofuels, Aquaflow Binomics, Petro Sun, Bionavitas, Mighty Algae Biofuels, Bodega Algae, Seambiotic and Cellena. For more details, check out: ::15 Algae Startups Bringing Pond Scum to Fuel Tanks
Just a thought. Growing algae requires fertilizer, water and sunlight. LA has proposed injecting processed sewage back into the aquifer
Many years ago, European cities processed sewage by spraying it on fields of grass. The grass cleaned it up as it grew. If you grow algae in sewage, You clean up the sewage and grow biomass at the same time.
Currently, sewage is treated by bacteria in big tanks and then filtered. The sludge is often burned and the ash put into the dump.
HI! This is a fascinating topic. I have some comments on biofuels, especially algae as feedstock available here. A little more technical, but it should be understandable.
http://apoptotic.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/whats-the-deal-with-biofuels/