Biodiesel from microalgae ... "Cultivating Clean Energy. The Promise of Algae Biofuels." Report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Terrapin Bright Green, LLC.

Similar to the oils from crops such as soybeans, jatropha and oil palm, algal oil can be extracted from the organisms and refined into biodiesel (methyl (ethyl) esters) by transesterification with ...

Algae has much better potential as a biodiesel feedstock because of the cost of cultivation, the amount of CO2 it consumes, growth rate and potential yields. Plus it doesn't compete with food the ...

The subsidiary will be based in Arizona and Australia and will research using the algae into biodiesel, ethanol, methanol, methane and even hydrogen, the company says. Previous algae energy ...

The resulting fat can be "converted into biodiesel or polyurethane, a kind of plastic used in waterproof fabrics and many other applications." Algae has already been considered for use in a ...

In this animated primer, learn why algae and other plants make oil, and how algae oil gets converted to biodiesel.

have been published in Nature’s online journal Scientific Reports and are likely to help bring forward research into algae as a source of biodiesel and other bio-fuels by a number of years.

Last summer, dozens of Long Island’s ponds, lakes, bays and estuaries were affected by oxygen-depleted zones and harmful algal blooms, researchers from Stony Brook University found, which were ...