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In 2009, Continental Airlines also tested one of Sapphire Energy's green crude blends.[7] Sapphire Energy provided Green Crude oil for the first flight's using algae derived jet fuel that was refined by UOP into jet fuel for two test flights – Continental Airlines 737-800 and Japan Airlines 747-300.
Iran started investigating the production of algae from 2000. Scientific evidence shows that south Iran is the richest area in the world for cultivating algae, because of high humidity, sunny weather, large unused area and salty water. [2]
In 1942 Harder and Von Witsch were the first to propose that microalgae be grown as a source of lipids for food or fuel. [3] [4] Following World War II, research began in the US, [5] [6] [7] Germany, [8] Japan, [9] England, [10] and Israel [11] on culturing techniques and engineering systems for growing microalgae on larger scales, particularly species in the genus Chlorella.
Jason Hall has positions in Fluence Energy and has the following options: short January 2026 $10 puts on Fluence Energy. Lou Whiteman has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.
Solazyme, Inc., was founded on 31 March 2003, with the mission of utilizing microalgae to create a renewable source of energy and transportation fuels. Founders Jonathan S. Wolfson and Harrison Dillon, who met while attending Emory University , started the company in a garage in Palo Alto.
The Aquatic Species Program launched in 1978 was research program funded by the U.S. DoE, tasked with investigating the use of algae for the production of energy.The program initially focused efforts on the production of hydrogen, however, shifted primary research to studying oil production in 1982.
Jaggi built the first model of Algae Mobile, a device that converts carbon dioxide emitted from a car into oxygen, [3] in 2008. He got the idea of building the device when he was learning to drive. In 2009, he filed a patent for it, [14] which was approved in 2013. [15] Since 2009, he has made different models of Algae Mobile. [14]
Joule Unlimited, formerly known as Joule Biotechnologies, [1] was a producer of alternative energy technologies based in Bedford, Massachusetts. The company developed a process to generate hydrocarbon-based fuel by combining non-fresh water, nutrients, cyanobacteria, carbon dioxide, and sunlight. After ten years of operation and building a ...