A Tool Kit for Algae Growers to Demo Soon
May 27th 2009, 05:13 pm
OriginOil is going to try to prove later this year that oil and water just don’t mix. The Los Angeles-based company has come up with a technique to extract oil out of algae that it says will cost far less and consume far less energy than conventional processes. The key is that the algae don’t have to be extracted from the water they are growing in first, according to CEO Riggs Eckelberry.