Creatures have been stealing energy from plants and algae for nearly as long as plants and algae have been around. Usually they steal the chemical energy, stored as sugar, starch and other molecules.

Engineers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have created a continuous process that produces useful crude oil minutes after harvested algae is introduced.

Government engineers say they have developed a cheaper way to turn wet algae into crude oil, but it may take a few years before it can be sold in any significant quantities. Even though biofuels ...

Colorado Mountain College’s Rifle campus strives to stay on the forefront of leading integrated technologies. Dr. Dennis Zhang is one example of the outstanding faculty bringing this leading ...

SEQUIM — Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Marine Sciences Laboratory are working to develop a new, low-cost process to draw carbon dioxide out of the air to grow algae that ...

Renewable fuels from algae boosted by refinery process Date: February 16, 2016 Source: DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory Summary: A new biorefinery process has proven to be significantly ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed what they have termed ‘the first economical, eco-friendly process to convert algae oil into biodiesel fuel’ – a discovery they predict could one day lead to U.S ...

First identification of endocrine disruptors in algae blooms. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 28, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 02 / 110216124224.htm ...