Zivo Bioscience Inc (ZIVO)

[Amigo Mike]

Nice article from a couple months ago regarding Bigelow Labs ..... a partner that has done work for ZIVO in the past.

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/08/21/greenhouse-to-grow-maine-labs-role-in-algae-industry/

A recent study pegged the economic value of all varieties of algae in the marketplace at $14 billion.

“That seems like a big number, but oil and petroleum is around $5.8 trillion – that’s with a T,” said Stephen Mayfield, principal investigator at the California Center for Algae Biotechnology at the University of California at San Diego. Mayfield, who is known as “Professor Algae, and his colleagues have spun off numerous algae-related companies from their research, including several that benefited from the brief explosion in energy industry interest in biofuels from algae.

More recently, Mayfield and his UC San Diego colleagues made a huge splash on social media and in national media by producing the world’s first surfboard made of algae. It is made of polymers derived from the oil of algae. Most surfboards today are made from petroleum products, which Mayfield said is antithetical to many sustainability-sensitive surfers. And Mayfield says attitudes are definitely changing when it comes to algae as not just an acceptable but a healthy food source.

“I think the dominoes are ready to fall, but the question is how big will that market be?” said Mayfield. “If you break into the animal feed market, you’re talking about billions of pounds. … It’s not like you or I, when we go to the store say, ‘Hey, honey, pick up some algae.’ But it might not be that long before that is happening.”

Amigo Mike