Yesterday, in a partly sunny Seattle, Matrix Genetics announced it would be spinning off from Targeted Growth to focus on the production of renewable fuels and specialty chemicals from cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). An investment from Avista Development will allow the company to expand laboratories and hire new staff as it sets out on its own. …
The commercialization of algae biomass for fuel production took a giant leap today with the announcement that Sapphire Energy’s Green Crude Farm, the world’s first commercial demonstration algae-to-energy facility, is now operational in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The first phase of Sapphire’s large outdoor production facility, which includes harvesting and extraction equipment along with the …
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The first event of the Summer of Algae II campaign was Monday in the country’s most dense center of algae research and commercialization: San Diego. The San Diego Daily Transcript describes just how far along the industry is in California and more about the Summer of Algae campaign. Participants at Monday’s event hailed from Scripps …
The Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2) and Solix BioSystems had their own Summer of Algae event at the Colorado School of Mines yesterday. Researchers and company executives met with local and federal official to show the latest algae research activity within Colorado, discuss commercialization prospects, and answer questions regarding the emerging biofuels industry …
The Summer of Algae II is off to a great start. The day after a kickoff event in San Diego it was time for St. Cloud State and algae start-up Algaedyne to partner in Minnesota for an event that showed off that state’s latest research and algae commercialization projects. Local and national elected officials were …