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WSJ names algae one of “5 Technologies That Could Change Everything”

In New York, the Wall Street Journal identified algae-based biofuels as one of “Five Technologies That Could Change Everything” that will be the major breakthroughs that “could radically change the world energy picture.”  The article identified the five game-changing technologies as: Space-based solar power, advanced car batteries, utility storage, carbon capture and storage, and next-geneeration [...]

Blue Marble Energy, Bionavitas to produce renewable chemicals from algae

In Washington state, Blue Marble Energy and Bionavitas announced a  partnership in which Blue Marble Energy will produce high-margin biochemicals from microalgae supplied by Bionavitas. Bionavitas, based in Redmond, Washington, has developed Light Immersion Technology that enables the rapid, cost-effective production of algae for environmental remediation, manufacturing health and nutraceutical products, and producing biofuels.
Blue Marble [...]

Algae blooms in St. Louis, San Diego, Seattle and Silicon Valley, but which is the King of Algae? READER POLL

Bloom times for four cities, but which is the King of Algae?
Whichever region, in fact, is the King of Algal Biofuels, it seems sure to begin with an S.
Over the past year, St. Louis, San Diego/La Jolla, Seattle, and San Jose/San Francisco/Silicon Valley have risen above the pack.
Though Boston has been home to compelling research [...]

50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2009/10 – rules and procedures

On December 1st, the Digest will publish its annual rankings for the “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy”. There have been numerous requests since the 08/09 ranking were released about how to qualify. Here’s background for 2009/2010.
1. The rankings will be published on December 1st, and are based on weighted scores. 50 percent of the score [...]

Washington State University on track for $2 million algae research appropriation

In Washington state, Senator Patty Murray of Washington announced a $2 million appropriation for the WSU Algae Biofuels project, a partnership between WSU and Targeted Growth.
The appropriation was included in the Energy and Water Development fiscal year 2010 spending bill by the Energy and Water Subcommittee today, and is heading to the full Appropriations Committee [...]

Bionavitas unveils new light technology to solve algae self-shading, dramatically increase algae yields

In Washington,  algae-to-energy pioneer Bionavitas unveiled its patent-pending Light Immersion Technology that dramatically increases algae yields in a cost-efficient and scalable model. To date, nearly every large scale approach to algae growth has been challenged by a simple fact of nature: as algae grow, they become so dense they block the light needed for continued [...]

The Top 10 Biofuels Stories of 2008: a Biofuels Digest special report

2008 was supposed to be the year when biofuels boomed, but producers and developers were under siege all year from a “vast, chicken wing conspiracy” drawn from groups that Daniel Gross, writing in Slate, described as “poverty activists, inflation hawks, efficiency freaks and environmentalists”. He could have added “an aggressive coalition of processed food, meat [...]

The Top 10 Biofuels Stories of 2008: #2, Algae

Algae bloomed in 2008, with Sapphire Energy raising $100 million in funding and providing fuel for the January 2009 Continental Airlines test flight.
Origin Oil, PetroAlgae, Solazyme, Aquaflow Bionomics, UOP, and Bionavitas were among major movers this year in bringing us closer to commercialization. General Atomics and SAIC pulled in major grants for algae-based aviation fuel, [...]

The Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy

The Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy, as ranked by Biofuels Digest for 2008-09 are:
(click on links for a collection of recent profiles and stories on each company)
1. Coskata
2. Sapphire Energy
3. Virent Energy Systems
4. POET
5. Range Fuels
6. Solazyme
7. Amyris Biotechnologies
8. Mascoma
9. DuPont Danisco
10. UOP
11. ZeaChem
12. Aquaflow Bionomic
13. Bluefire Ethanol
14. Novozymes
15. Qteros
16. Petrobras
17. Cobalt Biofuels
18. Iogen
19. Synthetic [...]

Bodega Algae

Website:
www.bodegaalgae.com

Tel:
(617) 899-1754

Address:
29 Sedgewick Street, Jamaica Plain MA 02130

Type:
Supplier – algae – photobioreactor

Financials:
Private

Symbol:
–

Competition:
AlgaeLink • Bionavitas

Key execs:
Sam Hill, President; Joseph Damen, COO; Dr. Robin Kodner, Dir. of Research, Amanda Parkes, CTO, Justin Ferrentino, Principal Research Engineer

Description:
Bodega Algae first appeared on the algae fuel radar last year, when the company reached the semi-finals of a MIT start-up competition. [...]