As we be alert this appearance out, taking part in are 15 algae biofuel firms that you duty appreciate about:
GREENFUEL TECHNOLOGIES: The Cambridge, Greater part.-based algae devoted led by telecom worthy Bob Metcalfe (whom we interviewed taking part in) has reached an display to flesh out its first fuel fruit farm - exploit 92 million - in Europe, says Xconomy. It's dirt free intelligence for the devoted, which has hit accurate point bumps over the ahead go out with, together with layoffs, switching CEOs, shutting siesta a music school in Arizona and discovering that its algae tech was elder upscale than first intentional.
The startup builds algae bioreactor systems, which use recycled CO2 to feed the algae, which is as a consequence converted happening biofuels; it uses the containers to painstakingly start the algae's using up of sunlight and nutrients. GreenFuel is backed by Polaris Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (our make a note test in the company of DFJ taking part in) and Access way Restricted Equity and has been working on raising a Class C bestow.
SOLAZYME: The five-year old devoted uses false biology and inbred engineering to proper algal strains for improved biofuel yields. Based in South San Francisco, the enterprise grows its algae in fermentation tanks without sunlight, by feeding it sugar. The enterprise is one of the few that consider managed to do deals in the company of a sickening oil enterprise - Chevron - as spring as biodiesel inventor Imperium Renewables. Backers protect Negative Method Wealth Bankroll and The Roda Group.
Negative Boulder ENERGY: The Seattle-based enterprise finds algae-infested polluted tube systems, cleans up the kind, and turns the algae happening biofuel. "If the choose of biofuels is algae...you're never departure to get ample office in bioreactors or ponds...It has to be something in the company of exceptional office," the enterprise told the Defender. We're not certain how Negative Boulder will start the gruff algae settings, but it sounds corresponding it might be troublesome.
INVENTURE CHEMICAL: Equally out of Seattle, this startup is working on an algae-to-jet fuel product, and told the Seattle PI that it has previous to formed algae-based fuel in 5- to 10-gallon tests and policy to set up a divide fruit farm to see if it can carry out between from three and 15 million gallons of biofuel respectively go out with. Inventure Chemical closed its first doughty of bestow mid-2007, and investors are reported to be biodiesel enterprise Imperium Renewables, Cedar Coppice Investments, Brighton Jones Mound Control and unknown angel investors.
SOLENA: Profiled in the New York Become old at the moment, Solena uses plagiarize temperatures to gasify algae and other rural substances in the company of high-energy outputs. The Washington state-based enterprise is discourse in the company of Kansas power devoted Sunflower to flesh out a 40-megawatt power fruit farm run on gasified algae, according to the NYT; the algae would be ready in big supple containers, and fed by a accumulate of sunlight and the sodium bicarbonate biproduct of the silent coal fruit farm.
Accommodate FUELS: Relatively of attempting to convert algae to the letter happening ethanol or biodiesel, this startup is uncertain to create environmentalist artless that might be fed to the letter aim the nation's whirlpool refinery system. The Menlo Scenery, Calif-based startup uses open-pond algae bioreactors and policy to commercialize its technology by 2010. Investors protect the Quercus Trust (David Gelbaum's good naive bestow rock band) and Sandia Nation Labs.
SOLIX BIOFUELS: Imagine Accommodate Fuels, Solix is very working on a biocrude, but by the use of a closed-tank bioreactor set-up. Based in Den Collins, Colo., and founded in April 2006, the devoted is backed by Colorado Train University's Zombie and Vigor Switch Laboratory. The enterprise has meant that structure will begin rapidly on its first, large-scale bioreactor at the nearby New Belgian Brewery, everyplace CO2 waste fashioned inwards the beer-making proicess will be recycled to feed the algae.
AURORA BIOFUELS: Full-fledged at the Institution of California at Berkeley, the enterprise is by the use of genetically bespoke algae to favorably create biodiesel. The Aurora claims the technology, grown by microbial biology governess Tasios Melis, can create biodiesel fuel in the company of yields that are 125 mature chief and consider 50 percent debase mission than whirlpool production methods. According to the company's web outlook, backers protect Gabriel Danger Associates, Noventi, Oak Headquarters Associates (and angel investors protect Auttomatic CEO Toni Schneider)
AQUAFLOW BINOMICS: The New Zealand company's terminate is to attempt "the first enterprise in the world to carefully carry out biofuel from gruff algae harvested from al fresco environments." Imagine Negative Boulder Vigor, the three-year-old startup sources its algae from algae-infested polluted tube systems, cleaning the polluted kind in the process.
Delayed compete go out with, publicly understood Aquaflow recycled its algae-based biodiesel to run a Clump Rolling stone provoked by New Zealand's Member of the clergy of Get through Transform. And it's been working in the company of Boeing on algae-to-bio-based jet fuel.
PETRO SUN: This enterprise is very publicly understood, but we said it was leaden to protect it in the role of they series to begin up their algae-to-biofuel production conceal in Rio Honda, Texas, on April 1. The algae farm has 1,100 acres ponds that Petro Sun thinks will disposable 4.4 million gallons of algal oil and 110 million pounds of biomass per go out with. Some give your verdict the enterprise is plaza jumping on the algae-slimed bandwagon.
BIONAVITAS: Based in Snoqualmie, Neat., the enterprise says it has grown technology for the high-volume production of algae by the use of bioreactors. Tab out their WIPO striking app for the bioreactor surgical procedure.
Evocative ALGAE BIOFUELS: The immature we do appreciate utter Evocative Algae Biofuels we astute aim their press-stud in the California Cleantech Genuine compete go out with. We appreciate, for example, that it uses closed bioreactors to display the algae. They were very quoted in the San Jose Mercury this month on a design utter algae biofuel.
BODEGA ALGAE: Newborn newbee, this one in the company of extraction at MIT, the one-year-old devoted has grown a set-up to display algae in bioreactors in the company of light and nutrients that it says is debase set great store by and elder in force than the whirlpool methods. Funding in May 2007 Bodega meant it was looking for 300,000 for "cash belongings, salaries and probationary assets to act upon the first prototype and begin a front study in the company of a biodiesel trade power." (Their web outlook is siesta, so we'll if they're silent as regards).
SEAMBIOTIC: The five-year-old Israeli startup produces algae for applications, together with the embryonic biofuel thoroughness, and is working in the company of Inventure Chemical. The devoted has been working in the company of Israeli Thrilling Regiment, utilizing IEC's flue for a source of CO2 and grows algae in eight vacant algae ponds.
CELLENA: A link up with fortune formed by Hawaiian algae-to-biofuel startup HR Biopetroleum and oil enterprise Shield. Shield has throng drink of the enterprise, which is in the process of take in a strut power on the Kona shore of Hawaii.
