Joule Biotechnologies Selected by AlwaysOn as a GoingGreen Top 100 Winner

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http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS127986+09-Sep-2009+BW20090909

Innovative Start-Up Recognized for its Helioculture Technology, a Game-Changing
Production System Capable of Supplying Unlimited Renewable Fuel at Costs
Competitive with Transportation Fuels


CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Joule Biotechnologies, Inc., an innovative bioengineering startup developing
game-changing alternative energy solutions, today announced that it has been
chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen Top 100 Winners. Joule`s
Helioculture™ technology is a revolutionary process that harnesses sunlight to
directly convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into renewable ethanol or hydrocarbons at
a production cost expected to be competitive with transportation fuels. The
GoingGreen Top 100 list is based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market
potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz. Inclusion
signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities in
the green technology industries.

"Joule Biotechnologies and the other GoingGreen Top 100 winners have excelled in
key strategic areas in the global clean energy technology markets," said Tony
Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "We congratulate them for their success in
introducing new tools, services, and systems that are driving the next phase of
greentech innovation and transforming the biggest industries on earth."

Joule`s transformative Helioculture technology leverages highly engineered
photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO2 to
usable transportation fuels and chemicals. The scalable SolarConverter system
facilitates the entire process-from sunlight capture to product conversion and
initial separation. This eco-friendly, Direct-to-Product process requires no
agricultural land or fresh water, and leverages a highly scalable system with
the potential of producing more than 20,000 gallons of SolarEthanol fuel and
13,000 gallons of SolarDiesel fuel per acre per year. This far eclipses
productivity levels of current biomass-derived alternatives, while significantly
reducing CO2 emissions and achieving costs expected to rival those of
transportation fuels.


http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/26/the-solar-biofuel-hybrid-joule-biotechnologies-launches/

the company has developed a hybrid system that uses a solar concentrating converter that is filled with brackish water, nutrients and a “highly engineered synthetic organism,” to produce a bio-based fuel. The solar system, called a HelioCulture, concentrates sunlight onto the mixture, and the engineered photosynthetic organism — which Sims wouldn’t elaborate on, only to say it’s not algae — converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into ethanol or a hydrocarbon-based fuel called a “SolarFuel


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The company said the process is scalable and requires no agriculture land or fresh water to produce 20,000 gallons of renewable ethanol or hydrocarbons per acre annually .

The company’s first product offering, SolarEthanol™ fuel, will be ready for commercial-scale development in 2010, according to a press release.