Another article crossed my desk that was all about algae for biofuels. This one quoted a figure: Algae absorbed roughly 20% of all venture capital invested in biofuels last year. I think that’s pretty impressive. That’s about $180 million. Also impressive: an article over at Green Car Congress talks about a 91 octane gasoline derived from algal a biocrude.
Here are a few of the companies looking into algae biofuels:
Petrosun [edit 3/9/14, defunct]
GreenFuel Technologies [defunct]
AXI, LLC – this one is was cooperating with my Alma Mater [defunct]
-Peter
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