Sapphire Energy
Sapphire is leading the new industrial category of Green Crude production, profoundly altering the petrochemical landscape for the better…
A.I.M. Interview: Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell
Their films are kinder and gentler than, say, a Michael Moore-type assault on big beaurocracy’s shell games and bumbling ineptitude. Yet, biofueled filmmakers Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell…
A.I.M. Interview: Algae Genetic Engineer Dr. Stephen Mayfield Part 2
We continue with the conclusion of our interview with Dr. Stephen Mayfield…Do you have a concern about genetic engineering? Is there a dark side that you think has a valid risk…
A.I.M. Interview: Algae Genetic Engineer Dr. Stephen Mayfield
If moving genes around on a chromosome is your idea of a good time, meet Dr. Stephen Mayfield, Director of the San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology. A PhD geneticist from UC Berkeley…
Green Crude
Las Cruces is a hot bed of algae activity. As KRWG’s Jared Andersen reports, employees at the Sapphire Energy research facility work 7 days a week in an attempt to create, “green crude”…
A.I.M. Interview: OriginOil’s Brian Goodall
When senior executives move from the petroleum industry into the biofuels sector, there is a certain satisfaction that comes with them into this new field. Their satisfaction, because they are…
Cynthia Warner
Cynthia Warner (Sapphire Energy), “High Order Bit: Burning Algae: The Green Crude Revolution.”
Algae Collaboration Developing Therapeutic Proteins
Scientists from Sapphire Energy, UCSD, Scripps, and Protelica, have demonstrated the feasibility of using algae to produce commercial levels of human therapeutic proteins that are currently being…
AIM Interview: Sapphire Energy’s Tim Zenk
Sapphire Energy began in 2007 with a debate between three friends: entrepreneur and bioengineer Jason Pyle; Kristina Burow, a chemist turned venture capitalist; and Nathaniel David, a biologist and serial company…
U.S. DOE
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Dec. 4 the selection of three algae-based integrated biorefinery projects to receive nearly $100 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act…
