June 29, 2009 - Algenol Biofuels, a start-up company from Mexico, has figured out a commercially viable way to create ethanol from algae. According to the company's website, Alegenol puts C02 to work in a process that links photosynthesis with natural enzymes to produce ethanol inside each tiny algae cell. Algenol claims it will produce ethanol at a rate of over 6,000 gallons per acre per year. Today Dow Chemical will be announcing its plans to build a demonstration plant with Algenol. Dow is interested in replacing natural gas with biofuel in the manufacturing of plastics.
In addition to producing biofuel the algae used in Algenol's process emit oxygen. The oxygen can be used to burn coal used in power plants more cleanly. Here's the full story from Matthew Wald in the NY Times.
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Cali Mesa
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Dennisportager Read this article with some skepticism- didn't Dow dump thousand's of pounds of pesticide Kepon into Chesapeake Bay in the 70's? Aren't bluefish and stripers STILL contaminated with their residue???????????????? When will we realize, "nature.........................bat's last"? |
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Met Cafe
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Doctor Demento's P.A.- Wellfleet 70% of available oxygen is produced by inshore diatoms, alga's, and other phytoplankton. With dead zones (anoxic) increasing here (Oregon, Gulf, New York Sound) by 1000 sq.miles annually, it's only time until sinking O2 level's (by 2%) correspondingly drop IQ level's by 20 and we're all blithering idiots! Well, at least Sarah Paylin will look like a genious........but, at least we'll have fuel to jet up the Cape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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