So we’re live at Solazyme’s HQ, where we are about to drive the first algae biodeisel car in the world. When everyone sees the Solazyme logo, they keep saying, what is this?

When you went and got your car filled up with gas last, the gas was made from oil that originated with algae maybe 100 million years ago. Because algae is the original oil producer. This is very robust. Our technology is to take those organisms, which are the best oil producers on the planet and to condense that process into a few days. And to do it in a way where you can use it in pre-existing commercial production infrastructure, so that you can compress this process in a few days. The algae make the oil for you, you turn it into diesel fuel. And you drive away in your car.

He’s been working on biodeisel for 12 years, algae for renewable energy would be the company that would start. We were featured in a movie with Josh.

Sitting here at Sundance with you for the premiere of his film, Fields of Fuel, which is bringing our technology out into the open. It’s the Solazyme Mercedes is the first of it’s time. Would you ever imagine a future Mercedes car running on a fuel source made of algae? Wow, you are really driving that car on something you made from algae? This is pretty amazing, that I’m driving on algae right now.

We brought this to the world through Fields of Fuel. The car is off the showroom floor. The performance of this car is unbelievable! We’re here in Park City, it’s freezing cold as you know, and dumping snow and this Mercedes is driving all around town. They have optimized algae to make the ideal oil, so you have an oil profile, you take that oil and put it into the reaction, and what these guys did was they actually optimized the oil, so would have the best cold temperature properties around. We have the really, really clean ASTM spec. As biodeisel goes, it’s extremely high quality biodeisel.

The technology is going to be commercially available even within the next 2 or 3 years. The ability to make this oil in very large quantities and make it in very high quality is here today. We want to get this technology commercialized as rapidly as possible and bring the environmental benefits to the planet.

And if you want to get a new fuel out to the marketplace, who better to work with than the guys that control it from soup to nuts.

Chris Payne, the director of Who Killed the Electric Car.
I have my own ticket.
So biodiesel on the streets
Biodeisal in the movie
Veggie van rolling down, left and right on the street.

We are at the New York Times brunch. What does one say to America? You say thank God we are green, and thank God we are renewable, and thank God Fields of Fuel made Sundance.

I have been a big biodiesel enthusiast for a long time. I’ve been driving my own biodiesel Mercedes for over a year now, and I am a firm believer that it is the way to the future. No doubt that Fields of Fuel is going to be a catalyst in bringing biofuels and biodiesel to US of America. And it will definitely make a huge difference in our lives.

I’m Michael . I met Josh in August. I brought the ? organization in and came up with about $70,000 around Thanksgiving when they really needed it. Thought I should come up