Chicago students realize algae lab-to-wheels demonstration dream
In Chicago, a group of students at Al Raby School, led by teacher David Levine, powered a car on algae-based biodiesel on a 20 mile round trip journey using algae grown in the classroom and converted into biodiesel by students. The story of Levine’s use of biodiesel to stimulate the imaginations of lower-income students from poor families on Chicago’s West Side is related in a delightful post at jalopnik. com
Dream Fuels partners with Lee County for Florida jatropha demonstrationDream Fuels donated 1,500 jatropha seedlings to Lee County for a 1-acre demonstration farm. The county plans to use jatropha and restaurant grease to produce biodiesel fuel for the county fleet.
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Florida’s My Dream Fuels aims to plant 900,000 jatropha treesIn Florida, My Dream Fuel has initiated a campaign to recruit farmers to plant 900,000 jatropha trees, or enough to produce as much as 1.5 Mgy of jatropha oil from 2,250 acres. The company said that i...
New Mexico researchers accelerate algae biofuel timeline; commercial demonstration seen in 18 monthsIn New Mexico, researchers at the Center of Excellence for Hazardous Materials Management in Artesia said that they will be ready for a commercial demonstration of algae-based biofuels within 18 month...
Algae bloom: Producers snap up algae oil, farms struggle to produce volume, startups proliferateBusiness Week published a roundup on developments in algae-based biodiesel, highlighting startups by Chevron, Honeywell and Boeing, as well as the technical challenges of producing algae in a controll...
“Algae Bloom”: The struggle to make affordable microalgae fuel[caption id="attachment_5182" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="The first photo of an ignitable algae fuel, taken at a Sustainable Power bench test, 1/16/2008"][/caption]
"Algae Bloom", a conc...
Boston University students award victory to biofuels team in “Great Debate”In Massachusetts, a team composed of REAP Coalition founder Brooke Coleman, American Biofuels Council executive director Sean O'Hanlon, and a college student defeated a team including Energy Tribune e...
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