4. Even if the food supply wasnât an issue, there isnât enough arable land to produce enough fuel to meet the worldâs needs
5. The newest generation of biofuels include using algae, the fastest growing plant (actually a group of ~30,000 known species) known
6. Algae is a feedstock that can be used to produce various types of fuel, including gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel fuel A bad problem that is quickly getting worse
7. Millions of dollars are currently being invested in algae-to-biofuels research Exxon-Mobil: $600 Million Bill Gates: $100 Million General Atomics/Department of Defense: $43 Million Solazyme: $76 Million
12. The National Algae Association is a nonprofit organization seeking to form alliances that will fast track algae commercialization
13. The National Algae Association recently approached the LSC Biotechnology Institute about housing and operating one of the first commercial scale algae growth and harvesting systems in the United States Harvester Photobioreactor (PBR) Oil Extractor
14. Harvell Plastics and George Fischer Piping Systems donated several thousands of dollars worth of customized plastics for constructing 3 state-of-the-art PBRs at LSC-Montgomery
15. Biocentric Energy has agreed to donate a photobioreactor (PBR) of what may be the most cost-effective design yet developed
16. Yokogawa Corporation of America and Fluid Imaging Technologies have or will be donating/lending >$100,000 worth of instrumentation for monitoring the algae and culture conditions in real time