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What does it take to make a million barrels of “green” oil a day? According to San Diego, California-based Sapphire Energy (Hall 3 E118), the answer lies i
What does it take to make a million barrels of “green” oil a day? According to San Diego, California-based Sapphire Energy (Hall 3 E118), the answer lies in combination of new environmentally friendly technologies. Sapphire aims to be producing about 67 barrels (2,800 gallons) of its fuel per day by 2014. By 2018, it hopes to be producing between 5,000 and 10,000 barrels of green crude per day.
Earlier this year it broke ground on a development facility in Columbus, New Mexico. CEO Jason Pyle said his firm is now talking with refineries in the U.S. to turn the algae into oil, but that using algae alone would not provide the entire global answer to switching to greener fuel.
