OriginOil in the News
Algae-Oil Breakthrough Leads to Fuel, Food?
ABC News – January 28, 2010: "Imagine a world where factories wouldn't be dependent on an energy source, but instead could locally generate their own energy simply by utilizing their excess carbon dioxide."
Biodiesel Maker Contends Study Proves Algae’s Worth
DomesticFuel.com – January 25, 2010: "A recent study that contends algae-based biodiesel is no more environmentally friendly than conventional row-crop feedstocks has generated some controversy..."
Business Briefs
Biodiesel Magazine – February 2010: "OriginOil Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s Research Institute of Tsukuba Bio-Tech to develop technologies for converting algae to jet fuel."
Cereplast Sees Major Exchange Listing This Quarter
Reuters – January 20, 2010: "The company has already worked with some algae biofuel companies such as OriginOil Inc....'They are going to extract the oil from the algae ... and we will pick up the biomass and make chemicals. We are repeating 100 years later what was done with fossil fuels at the start of the 20th century,' Scheer said."
Commercializing Algae as a Biofuel Feedstock
Biofuels Journal – January 14, 2010: "OriginOil, Inc., based in Los Angeles, CA, is about to launch its technology to convert algae to biofuels with a pilot plant in Los Angeles at the end of January."
Market Starts Week Strongly
ASX Stock Market News – January 11, 2010: "Energy stocks added 0.4%, with Santos, Origin, Oil Search and Woodside Petroleum all adding 0.3% to Friday’s close."
OriginOil Moves Up
Algae to Oil – January 11, 2010: "OriginOil's position advanced in rank from 45 to 42 in a hotly contested field of over 1400 companies worldwide working in algae."
Algae Sustainability Issues
Blatant Reality – January 7, 2010: "The author also doesn’t take into account that a new method for harvesting algae and extracting the oil has been developed that uses 90% less energy than the methods stated above."
Is Algae the Biofuel of the Future?
KBZNZ Radio (Sparks to Flame podcast) – January 6, 2010: "Biofuels to date just don't make sense if you're trying to be sustainable."
OriginOil Enters Algae to Jet Fuel Project
Biofuels International – January 2010: "OriginOil, a US-based developeer of technology to transform algae into renewable fuel, is taking its technology east on a new research partnership."
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