San Diego's Newest Green Industry: Algal Biofuels

The San Diego region, home to more than 500 biotechnology companies, is poised to become a Green Houston, as world renowned geneticists, biologists, and engineers at UC San Diego, The Scripps Research Institute and other local research institutions join with their industry counterparts in a broad-scale research effort to develop advanced transportation fuels from algae.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• ucsd
• uc san diego
• sd-cab
• algal
• algae
• biofuels
• alternative
• energy

[happinesson]

promising contribution of algae in the economy must be recognize! continue your research guys!

[bsideeffect]

big oil companies are investing in this technology, Exxon Mobil and BP have invested about millions to Universities

[NUBeTuBer805]

I'm barely a JR at high school butt Atleast I'm very concerned about the environment ...

[ababi44]

I think big oil companies should start to invest money on this technology and we get rid of OPEC. Then we will set the price not them.

[crose19692008]

Lets do this s**t! NOW!!

[aeroscope]

Omg i am desperately waiting for the first drop of commercial algal oil at the pump!! Here in Hong Kong, the oil price is amongst the highest in the world!!