Microalgae can accumulate up to 50% of their dry weight fatty acids, to consider yield per hectare 30 times greater than for biofuels derived from crop land. They can provide 20 to 75 m3 of oil per hectare per year, according to sources. Since late 2006, a French project named Shamash aims to produce biofuel from microalgae autotrophs. The primary objective is to assess the technical and economic feasibility of a production of methyl ester.

BIO-UV, France’s leading manufacturer of ultraviolet water treatment equipment and European leader in the private and public swimming pool and spa market, is a limited company created in May 2000. On its production sites in Lunel (France) and Los Angeles (USA), the BIO-UV Group designs, manufactures and markets ultraviolet (UV-C) disinfection systems and concepts

Kaplan is a french company developing an innovative solution (E-Store) to provide solar energy, including days without sun, through thermal batteries to an accumulation of over-solar and the restitution days where the sun does not go.

The first CleanTuesday Rhône-Alpes will be held on Tuesday 24 March 2009, 18:30 21H at Grenoble Ecole de Management (12, rue Pierre Sémard Grenoble).

AlgiePlus is french company created in April 2007 to exploit the results of research undertaken over several years at the Center for study and development of algae (CEVA) Pleubian and the Technical Center for Agricultural Syntec Pleumeur-Gautier