Bodega Algae and Bigelow Lab land SBIR grant

Posted On: February 12, 2010

Massachusetts-based Bodega Algae LLC and West Boothbay Harbor, Maine-based Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have been awarded a six-month Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant worth $150,000 from the National Science Foundation. The award will support the two firms’ development of advanced photobioreactors in growing algae for use as a biofuel.

The SBIR grant, called “Light Delivery Enhancement of Photobioreactors,” will initially target issues of mass cultivation of algae to make into biofuel.

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