Cleantech Update

"Algae Will Be Local": OriginOil CEO to Speak at Algae World Summit in San Diego - Riggs Eckelberry will speak on decentralization of energy production through algae - Los Angeles, CA March 9, 2010 – OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, has announced that the company’s president and CEO, Riggs Eckelberry, will join a distinguished panel of speakers to kick off the Algae World Summit in San Diego, California, on May 18, 2010. In keeping with the industry’s push to achieve commercial scale, this year’s Summit will focus on the critical phase “From Lab to Scale Up” and will push for collaboration between the many players in algae at all levels. In the discussion, Eckelberry will build on his theme “Algae Will Be Local”. His argument is that industrialized algae requires industrial quantities of CO2. Because CO2 is too expensive to transport...

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...