The Workshop report is now available for download. We wish to thank all the participants for their valuable contributions. Click the image below to download the full report (28MB)
Transcripts from the round table discussions are not included in this report, but they can be downloaded as a zipfile from here.
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This post was written by Anders Riel Muller on August 20, 2010
Jonathan Trent stores scores of statistics in his head, numbers he easily spouts at a moment’s notice. Among them: By the end of the century, an estimated 40 percent of plant and animals species will die out, partly due to climate change. It takes 2,000 gallons of fresh water to produce one gallon of ethanol from corn. Biofuel can be produced at the rate of 50 gallons per acre per year from soybeans; 160 gallons from canola and 650 gallons from palm, while algae can produce 2,000 gallons per acre per year. The city of Santa Cruz flushes 10 million gallons of treated wastewater per day into the Monterey Bay. read the full article at Good Times.
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This post was written by Anders Riel Muller on August 27, 2009
NASA scientist Jonathan Trent is developing a smarter way to turn algae into oil. He’s created plastic osmotic containers that will float below the surface of the ocean, grow algae, and then help it bloom into oil. He says the new method is more beneficial because algae can grow in a larger area and doesn’t compete with agricultural land. (From www.smartplanet.com)
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This post was written by Anders Riel Muller on August 27, 2009
FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CHLOROPHYLL A FLUORESCENCE EMISSION AND IT’S
APPLICATION ON ALGAE BIOTECHNOLOGY
Dates: August 31th to September 11th of 2009
Place: Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto
Politécnico Nacional. México City. México
Speakers:
• Dr. Jiri Masojidek, Institute of Microbiology, Academic of Sciences,
Trebon,
and Institute of Physical Biology, University of South Bohemia, Nove Hrady,
Czech Republic.
• Dra. Rosa Olivia Cañizares-Villanueva. CINVESTAV-IPN, Departamento de
Biotecnología. Laboratorio de Biotecnología de Microalgas, México
• Dr. Sergio González-Moreno. UNAM, Facultad de Estudios Superiores
Iztacala, UMF-Laboratorio de Bioquímica, México
• Dr. Hugo V. Perales-Vela. UNAM, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala,
UMF-Laboratorio de Bioquímica, México
Lectures:
1. Mass cultivation of freshwater microalgae
2. Photobiorreactors
3. Photosynthetic metabolism
4. Respiratory metabolism
5. Chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthetic activity
Practical activities:
1. Cultivation of algae
2 Pigments determination
3. Growth determination
4. Nutrient consumption
5. Quantification of respiration and photosynthesis by oxygen production and
consumption
6. Quantification of photosynthesis by chlorophyll a fluorescence
Conferences:
1. Algae Biotechnology
2. Algae Production of hydrogen and biodiesel
3. Algae Production of carotenoids
4. Algae remediation of waste water: Heavy metals
5. Algae remediation of waste water: N and P
6. Algae Production of proteins and PUFAS
For more information please contact to hperales@yahoo.com or
hugo.perales@gmail.com
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This post was written by Anders Riel Muller on August 18, 2009
May 14, 2009 — Take some NASA-developed plastic membranes, add algae and municipal waste water and float it out to sea. What have you got? An environmentally friendly alternative to U.S. dependence on foreign oil, says one NASA scientist.
Jonathan Trent, a researcher at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., sees algae farmed at sea as a win-win-win scenario: The plants are oil-rich and easy to grow; sea-based nurseries leave land free for food production; and the process should take out more carbon from the atmosphere than what it puts in.
As an added bonus, the system purifies waste water now being pumped into the ocean.
Read More
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This post was written by Anders Riel Muller on June 10, 2009
Google has showered funds on solar power, plug-in vehicles, batteries and energy management since getting bitten by the cleantech bug a few years ago. Next-gen biofuels made from algae, which have generated no small amount of interest from other investors, might have been starting to feel left out. But back in 2007, Google provided grants for clean energy projects at NASA Ames, and a scientist named Jonathan Trent snagged one of them for an underwater, largely under-the-radar algae project. According to Cleantech Group, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have invested $250,000 in Trent’s ongoing efforts to develop an algae-based fuel using a decidedly low-tech input: sewage. Read the full article at Earth2Tech.
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This post was written by Anders Riel Muller on May 20, 2009
Darius Snieckus and Anders Bjartnes from Recharge News wrote two articles about the Algae initiative on Lolland and the Omega Project. You can Download the Lolland article and the Omega article by following the links. Thank you to Recharge News for letting us post the articles.
Source: www.rechargenews.com
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This post was written by Anders Riel Muller on May 8, 2009
The algae workshop was covered by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (Danmarks Radio) on the evening news. You can see the clip here. In Danish only.
The workshop was also featured on the radio program “Climate & Environment” (Klima og Miljø). The radio show is in Danish and can be found here.
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This post was written by Anders Riel Muller on April 27, 2009
By John Lorinc
While North America’s nascent offshore wind turbine industry is scarcely out of diapers, a Danish renewable energy development agency is convening a gathering of international scientists this spring to figure out whether aging turbines in the Baltic Sea can be pressed into service to grow algae for use as a biofuel feedstock.
Organized by Baltic Sea Solutions, the workshop will take place April 20-22, 2009, on Lolland, a sleepy Danish island that has set itself up as a host for numerous renewable energy pilot projects. It is also home to Vindeby, the world’s first offshore wind farm, an 11-eleven turbine facility that went into service in 1990.
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This post was written by Anders Riel Muller on February 23, 2009
Lolland, Denmark
An international team of world-famous scientists, engineers, and economists will assemble on Lolland this spring to consider the possibility of making the biofuels of the future from microscopic algae. Why is the workshop on Lolland? With the world’s first and largest installation of offshore windmills, Lolland is the natural location for this algae workshop because of its long commitment to alternative energy development and because its windmill farms could serve as an excellent location for the installation of the first offshore algae cultivation facility.
The international workshop will take place from April 20-22, 2009 and is organized by Baltic Sea Solutions (Bass) along with an international scientific team led by Dr. Jonathan Trent, Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Science Lead for the Global Research into Energy and the Environment at NASA (GREEN). The other scientific team members are: Dr. Lene Lange, Vice Dean of Research for the Faculties of Engineering, Natural Sciences and Medicine at Aalborg University, Denmark. Dr. Qiang Hu, Professor, Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Arizona State University. Dr. Maurice Averner, NASA Program Manager (Retired), NASA Fundamental Biology Program. Dr. Peter Lindblad, Professor, Department of Photochemistry and Molecular Science, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Read the full press Release here:
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This post was written by Anders Riel Muller on January 28, 2009
