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What's Selling in America: part 1 of 5

BY Bill Breen
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:38 AM

"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»

ALGAE FUEL | Comment

BP Joins Exxon in Algae Fuel Lovefest

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 5:10 PM

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»

LIVEFUELS | 2 comments

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

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 9:38 AM

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»

BIOFUEL | 1 comment

Five Companies That Are Turning Algae Into Energy

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 7:00 PM

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»

NASA | 8 comments

NASA Coaxes Biofuel From Bags of Sewage

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Tue May 12, 2009 at 4:53 PM

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»

GENIFUEL | Comment

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

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Wed May 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM

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»

ENTREPRENEURSHIP | 10 comments

10 Biofuels Companies You Need to Know About

BY Francine Hardaway
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Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 3:58 PM

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»

BIOTECH | 8 comments

Biotechs Wage War on Superbugs

BY Elizabeth Svoboda
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri May 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM

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

BP | 3 comments

Has BP Actually Moved Beyond Petroleum?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Thu Nov 5, 2009 at 1:13 PM

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»

FUEL CELL | Comment

Hydrogen Fuel Gets a Boost with Stainless Steel Technology

BY Kit Eaton
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Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 7:48 AM

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»

ALGENOL BIOFUELS | Comment

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

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 2:48 PM

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»

JOULE BIOTECHNOLOGIES | Comment

Joule Biotechnologies Figures Out How to Make Fuel From Air

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 5:08 PM

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»

ABANDONED MINES | Comment

Abandoned Mines: The New Algae-Harvesting Powerhouses?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Fri Nov 6, 2009 at 5:06 PM

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»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION | Comment

Clean Rooms

BY Tracy Staedter
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:19 AM

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

ALGAE | 1 comment

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

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Feb 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM

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»

CEREPLAST | Comment

Cereplast Turning Algae Into Green Plastic

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 at 12:58 PM

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»

ECO PODS | 2 comments

Eco Building Rebuilds Itself Using Robotic Arms and Eco Power

BY Kit Eaton
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Fri Oct 2, 2009 at 11:50 AM

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»

BIOTERRORISM | Comment

Clean coal: how to biologically convert CO2 into fuel profitably

BY Brad Arnold
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Fri Jan 30, 2009 at 2:02 AM

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»

BIO-REACTION INDUSTRIES | Comment

Bio-Reaction Industries Cleans the Air With Bacteria

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Wed Jun 10, 2009 at 2:20 PM

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»

NAVY | 1 comment

Autonomous Robot Cleans Up the Ocean for Navy Ships

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 89
Tue Aug 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM

Complaints abound about unnecessary military spending in the United States, but at least the Navy is doing its part to cut down on the really ridiculous things, like spending $500 million each year on maintenance to make sure that ...READ»

WATER DISTILLATION SYSTEMS | Comment

Filter or Distill Me?

BY Larry Wardell
Relevancy Score: 86
Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 3:34 PM

What is the best way to treat contaminated water: filtering or distilling?READ»

CHANGE AGENTS | 9 comments

Fueling The Future

BY Elizabeth Svoboda
Relevancy Score: 85
Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 6:05 PM

The oil well of tomorrow may be in a California lab full of genetically modified, diesel-spewing bacteria.READ»

BIOFUELS | 1 comment

Filene's Eco Pods is an Adaptable, Biofuel-Producing Building

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 84
Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 12:56 PM

Algae-based biofuels have become increasingly popular over the past few months, with even biofuel-aversive oil companies like BP and Exxon getting in on the action. Boston-based Howeler Yoon Architects want to bring that interest ...READ»