Algae is green gold, but “San Diego soda” too?

In California, the Voice of Sandiego profiled the rise of the algae-based industry – “green gold, San Diego soda” in the extreme south of the state, based around efforts at General Atomics, SAIC, the Scripps Institute and the University of San Diego. San Diego is home to two of the Digest’s “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy”, Synthetic Genomics (#21) and Sapphire Energy (#2). Scripps associate dean Stephen Mayfield told VOSD that curing the US oil addiction “is the scientific challenge of our generation, and algae is the answer.”

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