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OriginOil Launches MAX ONE
Monday, 17 May 2010: CEO Riggs Eckelberry presents MAX ONE, OriginOil’s Mobile Algae eXtraction lab, enabling the algae-to-oil innovator to test algae strains and demonstrate effectiveness to potential customers.
OriginOil Turns to Market
Thursday, 28 January 2010: OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry discusses the company’s recent turn from research toward commercial pilots.
Pilot System Launch
Thursday, 28 January 2010: CEO Riggs Eckelberry addresses assembled guests at the Pilot System launch event. Algae martinis, demonstrations by OriginOil technical staff, and the brand-new end-to-end algae-to-oil system.
The Continuous Growth Process
The OriginOil automated growth system manages the continuous process by which algae grows by absorbing CO2, and then recovers.
OriginOil CEO Speaks at UN
Thursday, 11 June 2009: Held at United Nations headquarters in New York, on a panel at the Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization (IREO) inaugural Renewable Energy Conference, Riggs Eckelberry warns petroleum could remain strong until 2060, advocating a system to overtake petroleum that would be dependent upon entrepreneurs worldwide.
Quantum Fracturing Demonstration
Riggs Eckelberry demonstrates the effectiveness of the Quantum Fracturing process for the feeding and extracting stages.
The New Petroleum
“The world uses one cubic mile of petroleum every year…” OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry speaks on the incredible carbon debt created by the international use of traditional oil. How will we get off the oil addiction and will we need to dump all our cars and trucks?
Algae Production
“Algae is potentially the fastest growing crop on earth. The challenge is to industrialize the production of algae – something like what you would do in a big brewery…” CEO Riggs Eckelberry presents a thorough overview of algae’s potential, onsite in the OriginOil laboratory, where oil has efficiently been extracted from algae. “We call it crude without the tar.”
Single-Step Extraction
This time-lapse video demonstrates OriginOil’s Single-Step Extraction™ technology, reducing complex and multiple algae harvesting and extraction processes to a single, cost-effective step.
Border Governors’ Conference
Thursday 14 August 2008: OriginOil technology catches the eye of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the GreenTech Expo, themed “Building Green Economies”.
