Oil giant Exxon Mobil plans to spend up to $600 million on a program to make biofuel from algae.
View the video file from futurepredictions.com highlighting the early stage development of Algae Oil production processes and additional links to the various R&D firms.
Founders, J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., and the leading scientific teams they have assembled. Dr. Venter
I believe the best examples of disruptive technologies that could change our future are in the new fields of synthetic biology, synthetic genomics, and genome engineering. These fields can change the way we think about life by showing that we can use living systems to increase our chances of survival as a species. Simply put: this area of research will enable us to create new fuels to replace oil and coal.
- J. Craig Venter, 2007 (Dimbleby Lecture)
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