4
Jun
2008
Sapphire’s green crude gets $50m cash injection
greenbang
More hot news from the world of algae. Hey, there’s no oxymoron there: algae is hot, hot, hot. And, apparently, oily.
Sapphire Energy has worked out a way of turning CO2 and water into oil with a little help from their friends, photosynthetic microorganisms like algae. With just three magic ingredients, Sapphire can turn out ‘green crude’, which it dubs “a renewable 91 octane gasoline that conforms to ASTM certification”.
