Sapphire Energy, Inc.

Sapphire Energy Out to Prove That Crud Can Take On Crude

Sapphire is currently constructing a demonstration-scale Integrated Algal Biorefinery

"The model of truly being able to change the world for the better—you’ve got to achieve scale in order to do that," said CJ Warner, President and Chairman, Sapphire Energy Inc.

Dec. 16, 2011 -- For most people, the notion that the green gunk coating various pond and river bottoms is a potential fuel source sounds like science fiction. But the fact is, several projects sponsored by the Energy Department are actively developing various ways to turn that "green gunk", called algae, into a renewable and sustainable transportation fuel that will help reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil.

Sapphire Energy, Inc. is one of the Energy Department’s Recovery Act-sponsored Integrated Biorefinery projects using algae, with the addition of sunlight and CO2, to produce a green crude oil that can be refined into three of the most important liquid fuels we use today: gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH JOURNAL PUBLISHES SAPPHIRE ENERGY PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH PAPER

ON A CHLOROPLAST GENOME FROM GREEN ALGAE

"Sapphire Energy has shown that it is possible to make algae--the world’s most efficient photosynthetic organism--even more efficient," said Jason Pyle, CEO, Sapphire Energy Inc.

San Diego, CA (Dec. 5, 2011) – Sapphire Energy, Inc., one of the world leaders in algae-based crude oil, today announced that Nucleic Acids Research Journal has published its white paper, "An exogenous chloroplast genome for complex sequence manipulation in algae." As the site of photosynthesis in plants and algae, the chloroplast is responsible for producing organic molecules from atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and is thus a crucial metabolic engineering target. Sapphire Energy cultivates algae that use sunlight and CO2 to create Green Crude, a low carbon renewable crude oil substitute that can be refined into jet fuel, diesel and gasoline.

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