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ASU Researchers trying to get jet fuel from algae

David van den Berg, The Arizona Republic, Aug. 6, 2007

A team of researchers at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic Campus in Mesa is involved in a project to turn oil produced from algae into military jet fuel.

Qiang Hu and Milton Sommerfeld, directors of the school’s Laboratory for Algae Research and Biotechnology, will search for oil-rich strains of algae, evaluate their potential as oil producers and develop a production system that will yield competitively priced oil. UOP, LLC, a Honeywell company, is leading the project, which the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is backing with a $6.7 million grant.

“We believe, at a minimum, that 100 barrels of oil per year per acre of algae is achievable,” Sommerfeld said.

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