Green Star Products has finished the first phase of testing of an algae biodiesel pond in Montana. The first pond contains 40,000 liters of water but doesn't contain any algae yet.

The scale-up from flask to a 150,000-liter outdoor raceway pond is just too big." The new Sandia algae testing facility ... Wu expects the facility will expand opportunities for Sandia researchers to ...

using algae for fuel and biodiesel production remains an issue. "The big test is whether [the algae] can be successfully scaled up and survive in a large pond instead of in a container," said New ...

Over the last several years, algae has been seen as the great green hope to make biofuels a truly viable ... Getting the waste water to the the algae ponds or reactors does require some ...