An algae researcher with decades of experience in the field objected to my recent column on algal biofuels. He argues that the industry is far from dead. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

We just don't know how well algal biofuel production might work. It's true that the 18 years of research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory yielded a lot of knowledge, ...

“Algal biofuels are not quite ready for prime time,” says Joel Cuello, co-author of a new report evaluating the alternative fuel’s current drawbacks and its potential. Increasing the ...

Algae: Biofuel Of The Future? Date: August 19, 2008 Source: University of Virginia Summary: Researchers have a plan to greatly increase algae oil yields by feeding the algae extra carbon dioxide ...

The algae biofuels industry is still in its early gestation stage, the new report notes. Although well over 100 companies in the U.S. and abroad are now working to produce algal biomass and oil ...

Algae biofuel—which refers to converting the energy produced by plant-like photosynthetic organisms into biodiesel—has been proposed as an alternative energy source since the early 1950s.

Algae has big potential for biofuels, feedstock, and other carbon-cutting products, and the US Department of Energy agrees. But cultivating and harvesting it is still too expensive.

For biofuels neither open ocean macrophyte production, open pond, nor PBR production of algal biofuels have achieved commercial feasibility even after some 80 years of research ...

Algal biofuels production approaches and technical systems are still emerging, and facilities have not reached commercial scale. Public data on the economics of algal biofuels production is sparse.

Biomass to Biofuel: Byron Donalds, Brian Mast direct Corps to skim algae in Caloosahatchee, St. Lucie, Lake O to make 'biocrude' Naples Daily News Turn them into biofuel, says Byron Donalds ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Biofuels made from algae, promoted by President Barack Obama as a possible way to help wean Americans off foreign oil, cannot be made now on a large scale without using ...