Naturally Interesting

At AltEnergyStocks:

As I have consistently argued the people most likely to make money from biofuel are not the processors and distributors (who compete directly with petroleum or other fossil fuel-based products, and so have little pricing power), but the producers of feedstock, which, like oil, is in very limited supply, and so they will have pricing power.

The most productive biofuel source is algae (see this chart). It is up to 10x more productive than other sources and some strains of algae can be up to 40% oil. Read more on ponds v. reactors and a take on Petrosun at AltEnergyStocks.

Earth2Tech covers 15 Algae startups. Check out http://www.livefuels.com/ and http://www.solenagroup.com/ for particularly interesting applications.

I have been keeping an eye on algae for a while now. I think the algae potential is enormous. So seeing this is exciting.

The Rio Hondo, Texas algae farm will commence operations on April 1, 2008 as PetroSun’s initial commercial algae-to-biofuels facility. The current algae farm consists of 1,100 acres of saltwater ponds that the company projects will produce a minimum of 4.4 million gallons of algal oil and 110 million pounds of biomass on an annual basis.

Seen at The Energy Blog.