Wednesday 23 March 2011

Making biodiesel from algae

Monsanto Dips Into Energy With Investment 
Portfolio.com (blog)
Another giant company has put its money behind a startup with plans to turn algae into energy. But is Monsanto coming late to the game after the oil companies have taken all the best picks? Or is the agriculture technology giant better at making those
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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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Joule Unlimited Claims New Biodiesel Manufacturing Process 
Yahoo! News
Biodiesel using genetically engineered algae has been tested from some years but so far has not proven to be practical on an industrial scale. The amount of acreage required to create the biodiesel has proven to be too large so far.

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