As the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts, NAABB, comes to the end of the second year in its three-year lifecycle, it’s looking more and more like Aquatic Species Program: The Next Generation. Armed with a vast array of scientific resources and brainpower, this broadly based, government funded, research program into the functional future of algae, shows great potential to deliver the goods that the ASP determined were possible, or at least not impossible.

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In his 2011 State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama called on the United States to generate 80% of its power from clean energy sources by 2035. Critics derided the goal as unrealistic. But one way of getting closer to this ambitious goal is literally to go green — by using algae as a fuel source.

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“Let’s not simply reduce the CO2 emissions going up into the atmosphere. Let’s draw them down.”

So says Robert Brown, a professor of engineering at Iowa State University and a leader of the university’s Initiative for a Carbon Negative Economy and its Bioeconomy Institute. Those are interdisciplinary campus efforts to develop ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by growing plants or algae, making them into fuels and burying their carbon residues in soil – and make money doing it.

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In the bioenergy business, no one has nightmares, they have feedstock-mares.

You wake up, sweating and panting and shaken, with the unmistakeable sensation that your feedstock of choice is unavailable, unaffordable, unsustainable, or unreliable.

But the New Agriculture has arisen in recent years, with new solutions to the old dilemma: how do you produce, and afford, and haul, and utilize enough feedstock to make an integrated biorefinery work? How do you grow enough for yourself, without displacing the other guy?

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84. Kevin Berner, CEO, Phycal

One of the most interesting emerging approaches to algal biofuels and materials at scale? Phycal’s hybrid model in which they grow “skinny algae” in ponds, then fatten them up in directors by feeding them cassava sugar. Phycal plans to design, permit, build and operate a 34-acre pilot farm near Poamoho Camp in Wahiawa, Oahu that will use carbon dioxide from industrial producers on Oahu. The algae will then be harvested and their oils extracted, using Phycal’s patented processes, and converted into renewable biofuel. Phycal expects to break ground for the pilot farm in late 2011 or early 2012.

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In Florida, Biofuels Digest is reporting that global advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals capacity will reach 5.11 billion gallons by 2015, up from 4.37 billion reported in May, and 3.95 billion gallons reported in January, based on company announcements to date.

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Phycal Inc., an Ohio-based algae-to-biofuel producer, remains “extraordinarily confident” that its pending contract with Hawaiian Electric Co. to create 150,000 gallons of biofuel on Oahu each year will be approved by the state Public Utilities Commission.

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