The 3-year Algae Timeline

November 3, 2010

BY LUKE GEIVER

A group of major airline companies, airports and Rolls Royce have joined Sustainable Use of Renewable Fuels, a consortium that says it intends to develop a microalgae-to-fuel process and have a commercial production facility up and running in only three years. SURF is a project between U.K.-based Cranfield University, Airbus, British Airways, Rolls Royce, Finnair, and Gatwick Airport. The plan is to continue work being done on the campus of Cranfield to grow and process algae, and eventually, move that work to the sea. In fact, the consortium joined with Cranfield for that specific reason. The university’s Sea Green Project is aimed at rapidly growing algae in the ocean, and, according to Naomi Stanford-Jones, Cranfield’s executive of corporate communications, British Airways, Rolls Royce and the others will all provide help in business and technological decisions for the project. Maybe the Sea Green Project will make algae a reality. Either way, we’ll know in three years. 

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