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What's Selling in America: part 1 of 5

BY Bill Breen
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"First You Get High on It, Then You Buy It." Amoeba Music Marches to Its Own Beat Memo to: The Big Bosses at Virgin Megastores Re: Your Next Big Source of Competition These days, it's hard for monstrously big music retailers to ...READ»

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Eco Building Rebuilds Itself Using Robotic Arms and Eco Power

BY Kit Eaton
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We've seen every kind of architectural concept related to green design, but here's an exciting new one that may also be the oddest. It seems to borrow from a NASA design concept; it constantly re-builds itself and grows biofuel on its ...READ»

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NASA Coaxes Biofuel From Bags of Sewage

BY Ariel Schwartz
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There are lots of creative ways to produce biofuel from algae, but NASA's takes the cake. The space agency is growing biofuel in plastic bags of sewage floating in the sea. The Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae (OMEGA) ...READ»

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Daniel Kammen: Energy From Algae Is a Wildcard

BY EarthSky.org
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Daniel Kammen: From our analysis, probably the most interesting feature about algae is that it's a wildcard. Algae might be a big player, but right now, it'll take some breakthroughs for us to see that. Daniel Kammen is ...READ»

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Algae Fuel Industry to Spin Goo Into Gold, but When?

BY David Zax
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Getting serious about building an algae fuel industry in the next 15 years.READ»

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Biodesign Institute Harnesses Wastewater-Munching Microbes to Make Hydrogen

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Is wastewater our greatest underutilized resource? We've recently seen a startup that turns sludge into high-quality fertilizer as well as a university that produces steam, water, acetic acid, and fertilizer from wastewater. Arizona ...READ»

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Dead Zone Deconfusinator: Oil Not the Only Problem in Gulf of Mexico, NASA Study Shows

BY Kit Eaton
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NASA's revealed a study detailing the location and extent of the world's oceanic dead zones--regions where oxygen depletion stifles life. It looks like they're growing. First up: What is a dead zone (apart from a creepy movie starring ...READ»

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Dow Chemical, Algenol Biofuels Using Algae to turn CO2 into Ethanol

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Sometimes, carbon dioxide emissions aren't the enemy. Florida-based startup Algenol Biofuels and Dow Chemical Co. are building a Freeport, Texas algae-based biorefinery pilot plant to turn CO2 into ethanol. The 24 acre plant, ...READ»

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Go Fish: Startup Makes Algae-Based Fish Oil Into Biofuel

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Fish plus algae equals oil says a new startup called LiveFuels, the latest algae-based biofuel gambit that's as controversial as it is intriguing.READ»

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Abandoned Mines: The New Algae-Harvesting Powerhouses?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Algae is one of the hottest new biofuel materials, with over a dozen companies attempting to make the slimy stuff a viable feedstock. Most of them rely on the natural simplicity of the organism--sun and water turn CO2 from algae ...READ»

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BP Joins Exxon in Algae Fuel Lovefest

BY Ariel Schwartz
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The latest Big Oil endorsement of algae-derived fuels signals that the technology may be feasible--and a better alternative--sooner than anyone expected.READ»

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Genifuel Develops Process to Turn Algae Into Natural Gas, Not Biofuel

BY Ariel Schwartz
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A number of companies--Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, and Bionavitas to name a few--are working on methods to convert algae into biofuel. But Genifuel wants to turn the pond scum into something different: natural gas. The company, ...READ»

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10 Biofuels Companies You Need to Know About

BY Francine Hardaway
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When I became involved in the American Biofuels Council three years ago, the push for biofuels was at its highest point in the technology hype cycle. Now, in Arizona, under the aegis of the Desert Biofuels Initiative, a non-profit ...READ»

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Biotechs Wage War on Superbugs

BY Elizabeth Svoboda
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With antibiotic resistance on the rise, three biotechs are developing new ways to wage war on superbugs.READ»

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Joule Biotechnologies Figures Out How to Make Fuel From Air

BY Ariel Schwartz
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It seems impossible, but biofuel startup Joule Biotechnologies claims that it has successfully produced fuel out of thin air--sort of. The company's mysterious engineered microbes require just sunlight and CO2 to squirt out ethanol, ...READ»

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Terry Hazen on Bacteria Eating Gulf Oil Spill Plume

BY EarthSky.org
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Bacteria have been rapidly eating a long undersea plume of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Terry Hazen, a microbial ecologist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and his team published their research on these bacteria in the journal "Science."READ»

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Clean Rooms

BY Tracy Staedter
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A paint-on coating that kills microbes on contact.READ»

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Algae: Maybe Not the Miracle Biofuel We All Thought It Was

BY Ariel Schwartz
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We've seen plenty of algae fuel startups pop up in the last year. It's not surprising--algae has been heralded as something of a miracle biofuel because it doesn't compete with food crops (unlike corn) and it has high energy yields. ...READ»

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Light Immersion Technology Could Speed Up Algae Growth, Lower Biofuel Costs

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Algae-based biofuels could rule the future--if we can lower production costs. A Seattle-based startup called Bionavitas thinks the solution to producing cost-efficient algae is Light Immersion Technology, which uses pencil-shaped ...READ»

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Five Companies That Are Turning Algae Into Energy

BY Ariel Schwartz
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We recently received a press release from a fledging company called Renewed World Energies claiming that it has created the first commercially viable algae-processing system. The company expects to have two acres of commercial algae ...READ»

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Has BP Actually Moved Beyond Petroleum?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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When BP gave itself the tagline "Beyond Petroleum" in 2000, few environmentalists took the company seriously. Just one year later, Mother Jones magazine named BP as one of the 10 worst corporations for its environmental and human ...READ»

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Cereplast Turning Algae Into Green Plastic

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Algae: is there anything it can't do? The slimy photosynthetic organism is already in the prototype stages as a biofuel, and now sustainable plastic manufacturer Cereplast has announced that it can turn algae into a sustainable ...READ»

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Hydrogen Fuel Gets a Boost with Stainless Steel Technology

BY Kit Eaton
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The science of producing hydrogen to power fuel-cells in microbial electrolysis processes has just received a boost with some research at Pennsylvania State University that uses stainless steel components instead of the more ...READ»

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Clean coal: how to biologically convert CO2 into fuel profitably

BY Brad Arnold
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Any carbon diet strategy would be dependent upon clean coal. Since carbon capture and storage is logistically unfeasible, I suggest promoting 4th generation fuel production: converting CO2 mined from coal-fired power plants into fuel profitably.READ»

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Bio-Reaction Industries Cleans the Air With Bacteria

BY Ariel Schwartz
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It sounds like the premise to a science fiction film: Company with strange sounding name (Bio-Reaction Industries ) develops a system to clean the air with bacteria, and turns us all into zombies. But the Oregon-based company's system is very real, and it cleans the air in industrial workplaces with help from microbes that eat carbon-based molecules which do not cause zombie-itis (as far as we know).READ»

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