The Top 10 Biofuels Stories of 2008: #2, Algae

Algae bloomed in 2008, with Sapphire Energy raising $100 million in funding and providing fuel for the January 2009 Continental Airlines test flight.

Origin Oil, PetroAlgae, Solazyme, Aquaflow Bionomics, UOP, and Bionavitas were among major movers this year in bringing us closer to commercialization. General Atomics and SAIC pulled in major grants for algae-based aviation fuel, and two associations (the Algal Biomass Organization and the National Algae Association duked it out with competing conferences on the same days in October).

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