{"id":900,"date":"2009-01-31T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2009-01-31T04:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T04:47:00","slug":"two-different-airlines-funded-sapphire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/two-different-airlines-funded-sapphire.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Different Airlines Funded Sapphire Energy For Algae BioFuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/earth2tech.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/japan_airlines.jpg?w=450&amp;h=301\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 149px;\" src=\"http:\/\/earth2tech.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/japan_airlines.jpg?w=450&amp;h=301\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two different airlines had algae biofuel test flights this month, and both turned to the well-funded Sapphire Energy for their needs. Japan Airlines took flight today on a plane partially powered by camelina, jatropha and a small percentage of algae-based biofuels, while Houston\u2019s Continental Airlines took to the wild biofuel yonder earlier this month, using a blend of jatropha and algae.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego-based Sapphire has some big-name backers on its side, including Bill Gates\u2019 Cascade Investment, ARCH Venture Partners and Venrock, and with more than $100 million in financing, is one of the most well-funded algae biofuel startups around. And Sapphire touts that its algae biofuel is chemically identical to crude oil, making it compatible with anything on the road, or in the air.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earth2tech.com\/2009\/01\/30\/sapphire-racks-up-another-win-for-airline-algae\/\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. Two different airlines had algae biofuel test flights this month, and both turned to the well-funded Sapphire Energy for their needs. Japan Airlines took flight today on a plane partially powered by camelina, jatropha and a small percentage of algae-based biofuels, while Houston\u2019s Continental Airlines took to the wild biofuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-aviation-fuel","category-algae-energy-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}