Rat Fink
07-27-2009, 06:42 PM
Thanks too thebobber, OOIL up today 10.5% along with others in the sector.
OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL (http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.originoil.com%2Finvestors%2Fi nvestors.html&esheet=6015224&lan=en_US&anchor=OOIL&index=1)), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil (http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.originoil.com%2Ftechnology%2F algae-oil-basics.html&esheet=6015224&lan=en_US&anchor=renewable+oil&index=2), into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced that it has succeeded in extracting algae oil on a continuous basis without cell sacrifice. This new ‘milking’ process will join the company’s Cascading Production™ technique to create a combined cycle promising new efficiencies.
Live Extraction™, or milking, is inherently efficient because it achieves continuous production of algae oil without destroying the algae cell. Therefore a single algae cell can produce more oil during its lifetime using lower amounts of energy. Unlike other approaches to live extraction, OriginOil’s process does not employ expensive consumables such as reverse osmosis membranes; furthermore, it is not limited to oil-bearing algae strains, such as Botryococcus braunii, that are known to excrete algae oil naturally.
Algae typically protect their oil behind a tough cell wall. The challenge of live extraction is to harvest the oil without causing permanent damage to the cell. This goal has been achieved in the laboratory at bench scale and is now being scaled up to OriginOil’s intermediate 200-gallon tank size. A diagram illustrates the process at www.originoil.com/technology/live-extraction.html (http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.originoil.com%2Ftechnology%2F live-extraction.html&esheet=6015224&lan=en_US&anchor=www.originoil.com%2Ftechnology%2Flive-extraction.html&index=3)
OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL (http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.originoil.com%2Finvestors%2Fi nvestors.html&esheet=6015224&lan=en_US&anchor=OOIL&index=1)), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil (http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.originoil.com%2Ftechnology%2F algae-oil-basics.html&esheet=6015224&lan=en_US&anchor=renewable+oil&index=2), into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced that it has succeeded in extracting algae oil on a continuous basis without cell sacrifice. This new ‘milking’ process will join the company’s Cascading Production™ technique to create a combined cycle promising new efficiencies.
Live Extraction™, or milking, is inherently efficient because it achieves continuous production of algae oil without destroying the algae cell. Therefore a single algae cell can produce more oil during its lifetime using lower amounts of energy. Unlike other approaches to live extraction, OriginOil’s process does not employ expensive consumables such as reverse osmosis membranes; furthermore, it is not limited to oil-bearing algae strains, such as Botryococcus braunii, that are known to excrete algae oil naturally.
Algae typically protect their oil behind a tough cell wall. The challenge of live extraction is to harvest the oil without causing permanent damage to the cell. This goal has been achieved in the laboratory at bench scale and is now being scaled up to OriginOil’s intermediate 200-gallon tank size. A diagram illustrates the process at www.originoil.com/technology/live-extraction.html (http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.originoil.com%2Ftechnology%2F live-extraction.html&esheet=6015224&lan=en_US&anchor=www.originoil.com%2Ftechnology%2Flive-extraction.html&index=3)