Sapphire Energy Inc was founded by three friends, Jason Pyle, Kristina Burow and Nathaniel David. The idea of Sapphire Energy came from one of their arguments about the use of oil. They examined the situation from all aspects of their life, as scientists, as business people, as Americans and obviously as responsible human beings. From a scientist point of view, they realized that using corn – a very slow growing plant- was a wasteful way to produce ethanol.   When they looked at it as a business person, they understood that government subsidies were needed to decrease the cost of ethanol As an American, they were concerned about United States’ dependency on other countries as a source of oil. And finally and probably most importantly, they questioned the use of ethanol and its affects in our environments. With all of these worries, they decided to do something about it and came up with the idea of Sapphire Energy. Their new idea needed to be in such a way that they would decrease if not eliminate the use of ethanol while creating renewable fuel.

With the help of Mike Mendez, a scientist who created Xenomouse and GVAX, Steve Mayfield and Steve Briggs, both plant biologists, Sapphire Energy was launched in May of 2007. Although a recently formed company, they have definitely come a long way and worked diligently to make their promises come true. 

Sapphire Energy’s goal is to be the leading producer of renewable energy. They have built a platform hat converts sunlight and CO₂ renewable products that others can use as alternative to fossil fuels and therefore decrease the dangers that came with them. They produce their renewable gasoline from algae, sunlight, CO₂ and other photosynthetic microorganisms. This makes their gasoline highly efficient because there is no need for food (such as corn) and therefore there is no dependency for it. And because allo of their products are equal to crude oil, they are well-suited with out everyday products, such as cars and pipelines.

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