In a bid to drive down CO2 emissions and use non-edible feedstocks for biofuels, Algae is back under the spotlight, and over 150 participants from all over the world convened at the recently concluded Algae World 2008 summit in Singapore to discuss the commercialization of Algae Biofuels.
 
Algae World 2008 saw participation from the industry’s top [...]

What’s the story behind Algae? Was it always cultivated as a source of energy?
The mass production of micro algae has been going on for the past 25 years, driven mainly by the incentives of trying to look for a cheap source of food, fuel and feed and eventually ended up with algal biomass being cultivated [...]