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GreenFuel Technologies Corporation (GFT) was a startup that developed a process of growing algae using emissions from fossil fuel, mainly to produce biofuel from algae. It was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Greenfuel shut down operations on May 13, 2009 after having raised more than $70 million in investments, citing it had run out of funds, and a victim of the economy. ==History== The GFT President, Chief Technology Officer and the inventor of a newly patented system for growing pollution-digesting algae inexpensively on an industrial scale is Isaac Berzin, who founded the company in April, 2001. Time Magazine included Berzin in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. A beta emission reduction system was installed at an MIT cogeneration facility in 2004 and after performing beyond expectations was moved to a larger power plant in fall 2005. Pilot units were tested at power plants in Arizona, Massachusetts and New York. Although the algal biomass produced by the process consists of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates which could be used to produce a variety of products, GFT seems to be focusing on biofuel products. GreenFuel's large scale algae to biofuel process at the Arizona Public Service Redhawk power facility won the 2006 Platts Emissions Energy Project of the Year Award.〔(Platts 2006 Global Energy Awards )〕 In November 2006 Arizona Public Service Company (APS) announced that it and its partner GreenFuel Technologies will attempt to replicate their success of creating biofuels from algae grown using carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a power plant. In 2007, the company had to shut down its third-generation bioreactor facility in Arizona after the plant produced more algae than the company’s equipment could handle. At the same time, the company learned that its algae harvesting system would cost twice as much as expected. In 2007 they announced a restructuring, some 25 employees, about half the company’s staff, were laid off as a result of the plant shutdown. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「GreenFuel Technologies Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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