Joule Unlimited

Helioculture combines brackish water (or graywater), nutrients, photosynthetic organisms, carbon dioxide, and sunlight to create fuel.

Joule Unlimited, formerly known as Joule Biotechnologies,[1] was a producer of alternative energy technologies based in Bedford, Massachusetts. The company developed a process to generate hydrocarbon-based fuel by combining non-fresh water, nutrients, cyanobacteria, carbon dioxide, and sunlight. After ten years of operation and building a demonstration plant in New Mexico, the company shut down in August 2017. The company shut down after management was unable to raise money.

  1. ^ Ailworth, Erin (April 28, 2010). "$30M Is Feeding A Quest For Nonfossil Fuels". The Boston Globe.