"Playing with Pond Scum" - Algae Fuel in the Red Herring

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"Playing with Pond Scum" - Algae Fuel in the April 9, 2007 issue of Red Herring Print Issue

Algae, grown in factories or in ponds, is rich in lipids (read: oil) and could yield 5-to 30-times more oil per acre than palm oil for biofuel production. Only a small group of entrepreuneurs grow commercial algae -- a select group of “alga-nuts,” in the words of one such CEO. VCs don’t think it’s so nutty, though. Algae startups Solazyme, Aurora BioFuels, and GreenFuel Technologies, recently raised tens of millions of funding dollars. Read all about it in Red Herring's Apr issue cover feature, “Playing with Pond Scum,” (available only in the offline print format!)

Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature's way again

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