Sapphire Energy, a company that creates algae-based fuel, just announced a whopping $144 million in funding. In recent years several startups have emerged to create fuel out of plant material, all ...

Autotrophic, if not automatic, for the people. Phillips 66 hopes it can usher in a new generation of fuels by working with Sapphire Energy Inc. to convert algae into "green" crude oil, the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Harvesting biofuel from algae is effective, but not yet practical. A University at Buffalo-led research project – funded by a $2 million U.S. Department of Energy grant – is tackling ...

The oil giant is quitting an area of research it has long held up as part of a clean "energy future." Reading time 3 minutes It’s the end of an algal era: Exxon is backing out of a biofuel effort that ...

It’s been more than a year since University researchers and the Metropolitan Council began studying the use of algae as a sustainable biofuel and there had been a fear of lacking funds. However, Xcel ...

For over a decade, Viridos was the centerpiece of Exxon Mobil’s heavily advertised push to develop climate-friendly biofuels from algae. The oil major slashed its support for the company last year.

Oil giant ExxonMobil’s decision to abandon its 14-year, multimillion-dollar support for research into making fuel from algae ended years of funding for projects at the Colorado School of Mines and the ...

Gross-Wen Technologies, a rural Iowa company that uses algae to clean wastewater, is partnering with what one of the company's founders says is a "global energy company" to make sustainable aviation ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a new algae-powered fuel cell that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models. Both cost-effective and practical to use ...

ROME, March 24 (Reuters) - Venice's seaport plans to become self-sufficient in its energy needs by building a power plant fuelled by algae, in what would be the first facility of its kind in Italy, ...