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Jim Sears speaks on Feedstock from Recycling CO2 at ND Senator Dorgan's Renewable Fuels Action Summit
5/30/08 - Algae production will be a very important source of feedstocks in the future, but Jim Sears, president of Colorado-based A2BE Carbon Capture LLC, said there are still major obstacles that need to be overcome.
According to one source there may be as many as 200 companies developing algae as a biofuel feedstock, Sears said. By his own estimate, there may be as many as 35 viable companies working in the field. Despite all the investments and excitement in the industry, commercial production of algae oil is still a dream. “With all those companies chasing this, no one has successfully commercialized algae,” he continued. “No one yet knows how to do this in a way that makes sense in the long term. However, there are some very large companies working on this so I am confident that we will be there.”
Mark Allen provides leadership role in the formation of the Algal Biomass Organization.
5/29/08 - Mark Allen provides a leadership role in the formation of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) as world experts and energy users join forces to harness the huge potential of algae to address global energy, environment & economic priorities. (Download Press Release Here)
Jim Sears Speaks on algal CC&R vs. CCS (Carbon Capture & Recycle vs Sequesteration) at the 7th Annual Carbon Capture and Sequestration Conference.
5/6/08 - Algal CC&R provides a profitable and higher performing alternative to CCS (underground burial of CO2) while effectively reducing industrial CO2 emissions into the atmosphere as shown by assays of algal product life cycle avoidance and displacement of CO2 emissions. See the presentation here.
Algae farms could thrive on Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)
April 3rd - Jeff Mettais A2BE VP of International Business Development and Jim Sears, A2BE Chief Technology Officer, presented in Chicago at Environmental Finance's Bioenergy North America, on March 28 2008.
An Environmental Finance article on A2BE can be found here.
A2BE's presentation can be found here, and access to the entire conference proceedings can be found here.
A2BE Carbon Capture delivers keynote address to Jet Fuel from Algae scientific workshop hosted by the AFOSR and NREL
February 24th - Jim Sears delivered the keynote address on February 19th at an invitation only industry event entitled "Algae Oil for Jet Fuel Production Workshop," that was hosted by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL). The attendees included 35 algae scientists and industry experts from academia and the National Labs who joined to discuss the basic scientific research hurdles needed to achieve cost-effective industrial production of jet fuel from algae.
The workshop purpose was to guide the development and direction of future funding opportunities in basic science that may be provided by the AFOSR and other federal agencies. The full workshop proceedings are expected to be published in due course and will be made available to the general research community.
A2BE Carbon Capture's keynote entitled: Strategic Road to Commercialization - Food and Fuel from Algae - is available for download HERE.
"It's complex, it's difficult and it's going to take a lot of players," Jim Sears is quoted in AP's "There's Oil in that Slime"
November 29th - Jim Sears, Chief Technical Officer of A2BE Carbon Capture, LLC is quoted in AP's Article, "There's Oil in that Slime."
Read AP Article HereA2BE's Jim Sears to present at Algae Biomass Summit
November 10th, 2007 - Jim Sears, Chief Technical Officer of A2BE Carbon Capture, LLC will be presenting a "Carbon Capture Sequester and Recycle (CCS and R)" proposal at the Algae Biomass Summit, November 15, 2007. Sears' presentation will present a vision for micro algae's role in driving a carbon capture and recycle industry with a prospective global role of capturing industrial CO2 greenhouse gas emissions and profitably converting them into global commodities such as protein feedstock, bio-fuels, agricultural fertilizer, and natural gas.
Download the presentation in PDF format here.
A2BE Founder and CTO to lecture at NREL
Oct 4th, 2007 - Jim Sears, Chief Technical Officer of A2BE Carbon Capture, LLC to lead seminar presented by DOE/EERE's Office of planning and NREL's Strategic Energy Analysis and Applications Center, "Algae's Potential for Driving a Carbon Capture-and-Recycle Industry." Seminar is scheduled for Thursday, October 11, 2007, 10-11am (Golden, Colorado), with live video-conference in Washington, D.C. from noon-1:00.
Boulder County Business Report
A2BE sees algae as option for biodiesel production
September 28th, 2007 - by Lyla Hamilton;
Two entrepreneurial engineers believe that "thinking like algae" will provide dependable domestic sources of diesel fuel and help address global climate change. (continue)
Northern Colorado Business Report
August 8, 2007 - A2BE Carbon Capture was featured in Northern Colorado Business Report "Biofuels firm founder starts company with bigger goals."
Southwest Renewable Energy Conference
August 1, 2007 - Jim Sears, CO-Founder of A2BE Carbon Capture was featured on day 1 of the Southwest Renewable Energy Conference during the Renewable Energy Technology Update session.
