Wednesday 23 March 2011

How to make biodiesel from algae

Microorganism creates fuel, company says 
UPI.com
"We're not aware of any biofuel that can make that claim," he told the Herald. The company estimates that the organisms can produce 15000 gallons of diesel fuel per acre a year for as low as $30 per barrel and ethanol for $50 a barrel.
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Research Points to Algae to Fuel the Future 
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun - Jing Jin
LCAs allows for the comparison of “all of the energy inputs, all of the material inputs, all of the land inputs –– the footprint, basically, of making a gallon of biodiesel from algae, versus making a similar energy content amount of ethanol from corn,
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Can This Green Stuff End Our Addiction To Oil? 
The Business Insider ‎
All told, the public and private sectors combined have pumped as much as $3 billion into biofuel R&D since 2008, including algae — an amount that sounds impressive, though substantially more will be required if algae and other biofuels are ever to
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Biofuel | Lignol Energy hunts for new markets for wood waste products 
Vancouver Sun - Scott Simpson
Scotia Capital suggested that, at the present time, projects researching the production of ethanol from algae have an advantage over cellulosic ethanol. Lignol hopes to change that. "We need to produce either an ethanol cost-effectively or we are going

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