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The Carbon War Room’s Top 10 Renewable Fuel Companies
Carbon War RoomThis is part three of a three part series introducing the renewable aviation fuel market in partnership with The Carbon War Room & reprinted from CCW Magazine.
In articles yesterday and Tuesday, we explored how no sector of the world’s economy is more ripe and ready for the Carbon War Room’s approach to emissions reduction than aviation.
Renewable fuels hold great promise for addressing the aviation industry’s carbon impacts, and innovators and investors alike are clamoring to offer their solutions to rising fossil fuel costs and environmental considerations.
Excellent adventure on algae-fueled motorcycle
Shawn Styles, CBS 8 San DiegoSAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - Two local researchers are on the adventure of a lifetime, and they're only in their mid-twenties.
News 8's Shawn Styles files this video report on how they recently set a land speed record on a diesel motorcycle, powered by algae fuel.
Sapphire Energy biofuel in motion
Matt Robinson, The Daily TimesOperations should begin at the Sapphire Energy biofuel facility in June, the vice president of corporate affairs reports.
Tim Zenk, of San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, said the first phase of construction, which will lead to the beginning of operations, will be finished the middle to end of June. At that point, the pond systems used to grow algae for biofuel crude will be filled.
Corporate Counsel Q&A with Jim Butler, Vice President of Legal Affairs and Intellectual Property, Sapphire Energy Inc.
Paul Jones, Daily JournalJim Butler helps biofuel company Sapphire Energy patent its work on biofuels.
Jim Butler oversees legal issues as vice president of legal affairs and intellectual property at San Diego-based biofuel company Sapphire Energy Inc., which grows algae for conversion into a biofuel that could be used interchangeably with petroleum-based fuels.
Advanced biofuels, farm, airline groups call on US to fund proposed military biofuels project
Jim Lane, BiofuelsDigestIn Washington, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the Advanced BioFuel Association, the Algal Biomass Organization, Airlines for America, and the National Farm Bureau Federation today wrote leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee asking them to include authorization for the U.S. Department of Energy to transfer funds to the Defense Production Act necessary for an interagency project to ramp up production of military aviation and diesel fuels.
SAPPHIRE CO-FOUNDER RELINQUISHES CEO ROLE
Mike Freeman, San Diego Union TribuneSapphire Energy names new chief executive
Mike Freeman, San Diego Union TribuneStart-up company has raised $350 million to develop algae-based biofuels
Sapphire Energy CEO Jason Pyle’s Parting Thoughts on Big Biofuel
Bruce V. Bigelow, XconomyAfter stepping down as the founding CEO of San Diego’s Sapphire Energy, Jason Pyle tells me he’s accomplished a number of key initiatives at the algae-based biofuels startup, and basically that it’s time to move on.
VENTURE FUNDING RISES IN SAN DIEGO
Mike Freeman, San Diego Union TribuneInvestments in clean-tech firm, life sciences lead way
Whatever happened to algae and biofuels?
Jim Lane, Biofuels Digest2009 was the ‘summer of algae,” when it seemed that every other day, there was another Mom-and-Pop, or even inter nation behemoth, announcing that it was heading up biofuels’ Chilikoot Pass and the untold fortunes that awaited in the bio-based equivalent of the Yukon. It was a gold rush, it was a green rush, and there was excitement in the air.
The algal biofuels landscape may feel like a a desert these days, but like an open pond once loaded with hopeful swimmers eager to claim their share, hardy survivors are pressing on. At the head of the pack in the chase for fuels, then as now, there’s Sapphire Energy.
