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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

November 25, 2009

A Winning Algae-rithm - Anyone who’s been putting their green into the green stuff that grows in ponds — i.e., algae — may be set to hit the jackpot. Dow Jones Newswires reports that Capitol Hill is currently considering legislation which would boost the industry by expanding the definition of biofuels under the Renewable Fuels Standard to include algae-based fuels, and may grant companies algal biofuel tax credits as well.

Lawmakers want algae part of cellulosic biofuels mandate 

                                                                                                               

   U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate

   algae-based biofuel development

By Anna Austin

Posted November 11, 2009, at 12:56 p.m. CST

Valerie Reed of the U.S. DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy talked about the direction the DOE is taking to accelerate the development of algae-based biofuels at the Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy held this week in Honolulu, Hawaii. She said the agency intends to develop advanced biofuels—hydrocarbons and other high-density fuels that can be drop in replacements for diesel and gasoline—in a more accelerated fashion than cellulosic ethanol.

“We learned a lot over the past 20 years, and we believe we can apply that to a faster deployment phase,” Reed said, adding that biomass-based liquid transportation fuels are going to be the only adequate displacements for jet fuel. “This is now becoming a priority fuel we need to consider, and that’s why we’re moving into the advanced biofuels arena,” she said.

Algae has the potential to fit in our advanced biofuels scenario and has been a topic of great attention over the past couple of years, Reed said. “Why is this important to us? It’s an extremely diverse feedstock that comes from several kingdoms—this broad scope of diversity is something that we’d like to tap into and capture.”

From the November 2009 Issue of BIOMASS Magazine 

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Five Technologies That Could Change Everything (excerpt)

NEXT-GENERATION BIOFUELS

One way to wean ourselves from oil is to come up with renewable sources of transportation fuel. That means a new generation of biofuels made from nonfood crops.

Researchers are devising ways to turn lumber and crop wastes, garbage and inedible perennials like switchgrass into competitively priced fuels. But the most promising next-generation biofuel comes from algae.

Source: Saferenviroment

Algae grow by taking in CO2, solar energy and other nutrients. They produce an oil that can be extracted and added into existing refining plants to make diesel, gasoline substitutes and other products.

Algae grow fast, consume carbon dioxide and can generate more than 5,000 gallons a year per acre of biofuel, compared with 350 gallons a year for corn-based ethanol. Algae-based fuel can be added directly into existing refining and distribution systems; in theory, the U.S. could produce enough of it to meet all of the nation's transportation needs.

But it's early. Dozens of companies have begun pilot projects and small-scale production. But producing algae biofuels in quantity means finding reliable sources of inexpensive nutrients and water, managing pathogens that could reduce yield, and developing and cultivating the most productive algae strains.

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Article excerpt - June 2008

Gregory O’Reilly: Plant-Derived Product and Market Development Expert

Mr. O’Reilly’s work in prototyping and commercialization of halophytic crops spans several companies. As Corporate Development Manager at The Planetary Group, a technology transfer spin-off of the University of Arizona’s Environmental Research Laboratory, he facilitated university and private research and development, producing product prototypes, and piloted commercial-phase programs. Through The Seawater Company, its product division, he successfully produced high-quality, shelf-ready cold-pressed oil from the world’s first halophytic food crop, Salicornia bigellovii (SOS-10), that also fueled the company’s bio-diesel car. Remaining meal cake was refined into high-nutrient flour suitable for specialty food applications, animal feed, bio-composites and fuel. High-value biopharmaceutical extracts were also synthesized from seed hulls. He further demonstrated carbon-locking harvested plant biomass in non-toxic biocomposite wallboard and lumber. The company’s Mexican subsidiary, Genesis SA de CV integrated halophytic agriculture with aquaculture in a closed-loop agro-production system, demonstrated the viability of a seawater-based coastal economy.

As an executive working with the private industry, think tanks and governments, Mr. O’Reilly further influenced the strategic ‘marketization’ of integrated biosaline agriculture both at the global programmatic level, working with government ministries, major multinationals, and global organizations such as the United Nations, World Bank and international investment banks on advanced concepts for atmospheric carbon sequestration, water and soil remediation and coastal greening, and at the consumer retail level - getting product in the stores. Mr. O’Reilly established Coastal Harvest in 1999, dramatically advancing the market for halophytic products in Europe, the United States and Canada.

His passion for environmental innovation and coastal zone sustainability resulted in an award from Stichting Nieuwe Bedijvigheid Amsterdam and nomination for the Netherlands National Future (Toekomst) Prize for his forward-looking, innovative business initiatives and thematic investment concepts.

Mr. O’Reilly earned a Bachelor degree in from Rutgers College, New Jersey, and an Advanced Diploma in Environmental Diplomacy from the University of Geneva in cooperation with United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

Mr. O’Reilly is Principal of geoconsult™, a business development and advanced communication firm offering strategic facilitation and capital-related services to clients worldwide, catalyzing innovations  and advancing the incremental industrialization of the emerging algae sector.

 
    

Congratulations Arizona Public Service Company!

Algae Industry Takes Hold in Arizona

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APS gets $70.5mn for carbon capture project 15

September 2009--

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $70.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to Arizona Public Service (APS) to expand a reuse carbon mitigation project at a coal-fired power plant.

APS's algae-based carbon mitigation project will be expanded to include testing with a coal-based gasification system. The process aims to minimize production of carbon dioxide when gasifying coal. The company will expand a concept for co-production of electricity and substitute natural gas by coal gasification, while scaling up a technology where CO₂ emissions are biologically captured by algae and processed into liquid transportation fuels. APS will focus on the engineering aspects of continuous cultivation, harvesting, and processing of algae grown from power plant emissions. The host facility for this project is the Cholla Power Plant in Arizona.

Funding for the expansion falls under the ARRA's $1.52 billion solicitation for carbon capture and storage from industrial sources. The APS project is one of two existing CCS projects in the industrial carbon capture program administered by DOE's Office of Fossil Energy. The other is a Ramgen Power Systems project to scale-up a device that uses supersonic shockwaves to compress CO₂ for capture and storage.

After the construction period, there is expected to be a minimum of two years of operation to provide proof of operability.

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Show Me The Money: DOE Announces Funding of Up to $85 Million for Algal and Advanced Biofuels

The U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE") yesterday announced funding of up to $85 million over a three-year period from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ("ARRA") for the development of algae-based biofuels and advanced, infrastructure-compatible biofuels. DOE wants leading scientists and engineers from universities, private industry, and government to collaborate in developing a thriving domestic biofuels industry . The collaborations will allow different sectors in the biofuels industry to work together on new technologies for producing advanced biofuels that can be brought to market without requiring major modifications to the existing fueling infrastructure. Examples of advanced biofuels include green aviation fuels, green gasoline, and green diesel from a variety of biomass feedstocks.

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