An Arizona energy company is betting big on algae. PetroSun Biofuels has opened a commercial algae-to-biofuels farm on the Texas Gulf Coast near scenic Harlington Harlingen Texas. The farm is a 1,100 ...

There was much ado here Wednesday over the opening of an experimental farm – the first of its kind in Virginia – that grows a single, if slimy, commodity: algae. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine came and spoke, ...

Industrialization, modernization, increasing population, and technological growth are the leading causes of the energy crisis. The world population continues ballooning up, increasing the demand for ...

Orders for algae are flooding into Iowa State University after a new production facility went online.ISU researchers said the facility uses an innovative design that is attracting attention from other ...

You may have heard that we’re entering an algae farming boom. Biofuel produced by algae reared on greenhouse gases is supposed to replace fossil fuels with a climate-friendly brew. But if you try to ...

There's a new trend sprouting among local off-gridders, urban farmers, DIY scientists and Burning Man fanatics: home-grown algae. This movement is being spearheaded by Aaron Baum, 40, a Harvard and ...

Rather than squeeze algae for its oil, like other companies are proposing, Algenol wants to turn each algae cell into a tiny ethanol factory. An artist's rendering of an algae farm in action The ...

Looking ahead to a day when Arizona would lead the way in algae farming, a Tucson lawmaker has proposed two bills that commercialize alga-culture and enable the UA and Arizona State University to ...

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BRITAIN'S SECRETARY OF STATE for Exiting the European Union David Davis delivers a speech June 6 in London on Britain's vision for the future security relationship with the EU. British media outlets ...

BioFields commits $850 million to building an algae farm in the Sonoran Desert that will license technology from Algenol to start producing ethanol next year. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

In this June 5, 2018 photo, Qualitas Health, Inc., in Imperial, Texas, is cultivating and harvesting algae in ponds in the desert to extract its Omega 3 for human health benefits. (Billy Calzada/The ...