DARPA Funds Search To Develop Production Of JP-8 Algae Fuel.

Biodiesel Magazine (3/10, Schill) reports in its April issue that "algae research will get a big boost from two projects involving multiple partners that received funding this winter through the US Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA's BioFuels program is exploring energy alternatives and fuel efficiency efforts in a bid to reduce the military's reliance on traditional fuel through cost-effective alternatives." The projects "aim to develop a scalable process for the cost-effective, large-scale production of algae oil to be processed into a JP-8 jet fuel surrogate."