Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Algae keep on rockin’ in the free world

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane February 15, 2011

In Mexico, the Mexican government has announced its “Manhattan Project” with an initial goal of producing 1 percent of its jet fuel from algae by 2015, and OriginOil has agreed to participate in a pilot scale algae project funded by the Mexican government.

“By the end of this decade, the project must produce nearly twenty times that amount, propelling Mexico to the front rank of bio-fuel producing nations,” said Riggs Eckelberry, OriginOil CEO.

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