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The Woodlands, TX, United States, 07/18/2011 - National Algae Association Releases Agenda for its Algae Growing, Harvesting and Extraction Technologies Collaboration, Strategic Alliances and Networking Conference on August 1, 2011, at Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Algae biofuel has the potential to meet the world's growing energy demand. Due to its high productivity, algae represents a sustainable pathway for helping to reduce capital and operating costs of biofuel production, and mitigation of CO2. Moreover, algae have the potential to yield greater volumes of biofuel than other biofuel sources with a de minimus land use requirement that does not affect existing commerce. Algal biomass has been recognized as a promising alternative source of raw material for continuous renewable biofuel production. And algae can be produced in the US, stimulating manufacturing and jobs in America, where they are desperately needed.
BARD Holding’s presentation,“The Dawn of Algae Commercialization and its Impact on the Economy,” along with commercial applications by AlgaeVenture Systems, MerckMillipore, New Solutions Energy, Waterwheel Factory, Solutions4CO2, compliment the research updates to be provided by New Mexico State University and NAA's Algae Oil Spec Committee, and industry updates by the USDA, CBO Financial, Algae Industry Magazine and Emerging Markets Online. Ending the day with tours of New Solutions Energy's Algae Base Station and SFCC's new Trades and Advanced Technologies Center, a state-of-the-art building that provides hands-on, compelling learning opportunities promoting up-and-coming high-demand, high-wage green jobs and careers, will make everyone see, first hand, how this can be done and how different state and federal agencies, working together, can help to make it happen, according to NAA Executive Director Barry Cohen.
Cohen went on to say that he’s encouraged by the level of collaboration in algae production and deployment strategies, lessons learned, business practices, progress made and partnerships created, as well as the increasing number of technologies that are beginning to scale in growing, harvesting and extraction systems. He cautioned,“If a technology cannot scale out of a laboratory, it has no value. NAA is only interested in algae technologies that can scale to a minimum of 100 acres. We are constantly benchmarking and testing many different technologies to identifying what is scalable, and are actively working to help deployment of the ones we believe will be game changers in the industry.”
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