28
May
2008
Green Gold Turning Algae Into Gasoline
Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes.com
Start-up Sapphire Energy is promising an innovation that sounds as miraculous as a water-to-wine transformation.
On Wednesday, the company took the covers off what it calls “green crude” – a liquid fuel chemically identical to gasoline but not dependent on either a food source or agricultural land. Even better, it promises to be “carbon neutral”; even though vehicles that burn the fuel will emit carbon, creating green crude involves pulling just as much carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as it will put back in.
