An algae farm outdoor growth facility at General Atomics in San Diego. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) One by one, Big Oil firms have touted their investments in algae biofuels as ...

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada, August 9, 2013 (ENS) – To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from oil production in the Alberta tar sands, the government of Canada is investing in a demonstration-scale algal ...

WHILE THE IDEA of algae oil sounds pretty gross to us, the substance has been popping up left and right online recently. Could something as repulsive sounding as oil made from algae really have enough ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new cooking oil you didn’t know you needed. Dotdash Meredith / Janet Maples There’s a new cooking oil in town, folks. Algae ...

The oil giant is quitting an area of research it has long held up as part of a clean "energy future." Reading time 3 minutes It’s the end of an algal era: Exxon is backing out of a biofuel effort that ...

LA JOLLA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Viridos Inc., previously Synthetic Genomics, a privately held biotechnology company harnessing the power of photosynthesis to create transformative solutions to help ...

In the late 2000s, Big Oil led by Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A), BP Plc. (NYSE: BP), ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) hyped algae biofuel as the fuel of the future, pumping hundreds ...

THE COMPANIES LISTED ON YOUR SCREEN ALREADY ISSUED RELLCAS. STEWART: IMAGINE USING THE ALGAE THAT CLOGS OUR LAKES, DAN BIO-SOLIDS IN OUR WASTEWATER, AS FUEL TO WHISK US AWAY ON OUR NEXT VACATION. THE ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have discovered a way to turn a small mixture of algae and water into a kind of crude oil in less than an hour.

What makes essential fatty acids so important? While the human body makes most of the fats it needs, it can’t make omega-3 fats. We have to get them from food. Omega-3s are necessary for everyone from ...

Algae has tremendous promise as an alternative fuel. But Exxon’s pullout from algae research is a major setback. An algae farm outdoor growth facility at General Atomics in San Diego. (Mark Boster / ...