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Engineers have created a continuous chemical process that produces useful crude oil minutes after they pour in harvested algae — a verdant green paste with the consistency of pea soup. The research by engineers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was reported recently in the journal Algal Research. A biofuels company, Utah-based Genifuel Corp., has […]

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Greg O’Neil, a faculty member at Western Washington University, was awarded a grant to integrate algal biofuels teaching and research.  He developed and taught a biofuels class as part of the curricular development for the new Institute for Energy Studies, which was part of his successful grant application to the National Science Foundation. “This is […]

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