Algae expert appointed director of Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels

In Missouri, the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis has appointed Dr. Richard Sayre as director of the Institute and focused efforts on algae biofuels research. “Extracting oil from algae to produce a more sustainable biofuel is one of the most promising and exciting areas of biofuels research today,” said Sayre, formerly a professor in the Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology at The Ohio State University. “Algae have significant potential as a clean, renewable, and economical fuel source. And, because algae are not used as food, they are a biofuel source that does not compete with the food supply.”

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