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Here is a video of their process in Action from their website Originoil is only obne of several companies researching algea as biofuel.

Algae Power Bridport, Vermont - July 13, 2009 The cows at the Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport make more than milk. Their manure also produces power through the digester at the south side of the barns. But for the last nine months some of that liquid manure has also been sent over to a mini greenhouse where it's being investigated as another source of alternative energy. "Algae's been around from day one of the world," said Gail Busch of Algepower. That's right-- they're growing algae from manure. Busch is the inventor of Algeponics, a patented photobioreactor-- what she calls a vertical stream. She says it's the only indoor, controlled system in the world. Here's how it works: Once the liquid manure gets pumped over and diluted with water it runs from top to bottom, the manure serving as the host. "Half of the volume of that tray runs into the tray below and all the way through. Also, if you look at the system you can see that the bottom trays are mu...

By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) - Production of biodiesel in the European Union rose by more than 35 percent in 2008 and capacity will grow again this year although half the plants are idle due to poor demand, the EU producers group said on Wednesday. The Brussels-based European Biodiesel Board (EBB) said the European production of biodiesel, by far the main biofuel made in the bloc, had reached 7.76 million tonnes last year putting the EU's global market share close to 65 percent. However, the EBB qualified the 2008 rise as "moderate" compared to the jump of 65 percent in 2005 and 54 percent in 2006 but the rise was only at 17 percent in 2007. "In line with the trend initiated in 2007, the year 2008 saw a relatively small increase in EU biodiesel production, and even a reduction in two major producing Member States, Germany and Austria," the EBB said in a statement. For detailed statistics of biodiesel output per country and estimates for the 2009 cap...

March 9, 2009 Bio-mass : will that be filtering, pyrolysis or gasification ? “Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Zero Emission Energy Plants, Inc. Sign Gasification Licensing Agreement”, “Vegawatt plugs in grease-fired restaurant generator” , and “Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and AERI Collaborate to Develop Gasification Technology” ; are but three headlines that have appeared over the last several months regarding systems and/ or methods for processing a carbon-containing feedstock into some type of fuel. There are a myriad of techniques for the above processing, each having a different set of pressure, atmosphere and reaction conditions. The particular combination of reaction conditions being dictated by at least the nature of the feedstock and the desired end product. With consideration to the second headline, the Vegawatt system is designed to use waste vegetable oil to generate on-site electricity. It is indicated on the Vegawatt website that a four-stage cleaning process is ...

I pulled this from a Alfagy's website: They are developing wood mass gassification in a high heat low oxegen invironment, the burining the clean gas. Very interesting... -CTE Editor The range of fully automated Wood Gasified Heat and Power Plants are as follows: The ENERCARB wood gas technology offers customers a turn-key automated solution for heat and power generation from wood. We can provide a complete solution covering the full value chain from wood preparation to power generation in the 250 kW to 1,000 kW range. This is a gap in the market where the company believes there is a potential £725m market worldwide.A full scale 500 kW wood gasification plant was built for a client and has been operating since April 2009. Over the next 3 years sales of wood gasification plants are expected growing rapidly with the introduction of new support structures. Biomass accounts for around 5 per cent of total energy consumption in Europe. In countries such as Finland, Sweden and Austria it...

MERCED, Calif. -- A new study suggests converting biomass to electricity rather than ethanol for transportation produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions and offers more “miles per acre.” Researchers from Stanford University and the University of California, Merced, studied the lifecycle of plant-based electricity, or “ bioelectricity ,” and ethanol technologies to determine which delivered more miles of transportation with fewer environmental impacts. They concluded battery-powered vehicles that used electricity derived from biomass provided an average of 80 percent more miles of transportation per crop acre than internal combustion engine vehicles running on ethanol made from corn or switchgrass . " The internal combustion engine just isn't very efficient, especially when compared to electric vehicles," Co-author Eliott Campbell of U.C. Merced said in a statement last week. " Even the best ethanol-producing technologies with hybrid vehicles aren't enough to ove...

Environmental Power Corporation is a developer, owner, and operator of renewable energy production facilities. The Company owns and operates the Huckabay Ridge facility in Stephenville, Texas , a multi-digester facility for the production of pipeline-grade natural gas, which began commercial operation and has several similar facilities in varying stages of development. It also operates three digester facilities in Wisconsin utilizing the same technology that is employed at Huckabay Ridge. The Company has operated in two major segments through Microgy, Inc., as a developer of renewable energy facilities for the production and commercial application of methane-rich biogas from agricultural and food industry wastes, and through EPC Corporation and its subsidiary, Buzzard Power Corporation , the holder of a leasehold interest in a waste-coal fired generating facility in Pennsylvania known as the Scrubgrass facility. On February 29, 2008, the Company completed the disposition of the leas...

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by Al Rutan Research http://www.methane-gas.com/ Methane, Biogas, or Gobar Gas (Gobar is the Nepali term for manure) is made by the anaerobic (in the absence of oxygen) digestion of manure and plant life. The purpose is to convert this manure into methane to use as cooking fuel. Methane is: A gas made up of one molecule of carbon and four molecules of hydrogen. It is the major component of the "natural" gas used in many homes for cooking and heating. It is odorless, colorless, Yields about 1,000 British Thermal Units (Btu) [252 kilocalories (kcal)] of heat energy per cubic foot (0.028 cubic meters) when burned. Natural gas is: a fossil fuel that was created eons ago by the anaerobic decomposition of organic materials. It is often found in association with oil and coal. The same types of anaerobic bacteria that produced natural gas also produce methane today. Anaerobic bacteria are some of the oldest forms of life on earth. They evolved before the photosynthesis of green plant...