Algenol, a privately owned company, is engaged in broad research and development efforts to develop industrial-scale production systems to make ethanol from algae on desert land using seawater and vast amounts of CO2. Algenol uses cyanobacteria (blue green algae), natural selection, environmental selection, and the tools of molecular biology to produce low cost and environmentally safe biofuels. Biofuels are essentially a form of solar energy. Like all plants, algae uses photosynthesis to convert solar energy into chemical energy stored in the form of oils, carbohydrates and proteins. Algenol’s patented technology produces ethanol from four abundant and virtually limitless renewable sources: Algae, sunlight, carbon dioxide and seawater. The outputs from this process are ethanol, oxygen, freshwater and agricultural fertilizer.

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