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Jet fuel from algae passes first test |
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Solazyme—the mavericks who make their algal oil in the dark—have produced a jet fuel that passes the ASTM\'s standards for \"aviation turbine fuel,\" otherwise known as jet fuel. This makes it the first such bio-kerosene from algae, being earnestly sought by the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) and Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (better known as DARPA) as well as the U.S. Air Force.
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