On the eve of the National Algae Association West Coast meeting in Las Vegas (Thursday and Friday of this week), news from the European Algae Biomass Association as well as presenters at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference in San Diego offered news on business models, new research and timelines for algal fuel commercialization.
The co-location imperative
In California, Scientific American is reporting on co-location schemes for access to carbon dioxide or wastewater. “Various scientists speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference, which wraps up here today, were promoting the notion that algae operations should be located next to industries that can supply one or more of the nutrient streams,” Scientific American’s blog writers reported. The SciAm item focuses on a presentation by Sunrise Ridge Algae in Texas that is operating a pilot plant in Austin, Texas and using wastewater from the nearby Hornsby Bend plant. The article also profiles the co-location of the Seambiotic pilot plant in Israel with a coal-fired power plant.
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