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First United Environment and Energy LLC has announced they have developed a method to produce biofuel from algae oil that is 40% cheaper than other methods currently used. They claim that algae is at least twice as efficient as soy for producing biofuel. I want to know how it compares to switch grass. A pilot program is [...]
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Amazing stuff coffee. In addtion to it’s other amazing properties, including being good for the roses, the grounds can be used to produce biofuel. The estimates are the coffee ground biodiesel industry could generate as much as $8,000,000 in profits annually using waste from Starbucks stores here in the United States alone. Ok, probably less given falling crude [...]
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No! Not that weed, jatropha, a plant that is not a food crop and can be grown in marginal agricultural land. Air New Zealand is planning on flying a Boeing 747 with a mixture of equal parts biofuel made from jatropha and conventional fuel running in one of the engines. Unlike many other biofuels, UOP’s jatropha jet [...]
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Sapphire Energy, a San Diego based startup, has a process they claim can produce 91octane gasoline from “algae microorganisms, salt water, carbon dioxide and the power of the sun.” The interesting twist to their technology is that method doesn’t use a plant that people typically use for food (like corn, sugarcane or sugar beats). So [...]
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The MIT Tech Review has a story about a new process for turning plant sugars into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Another interesting aspect of this story that the byproducts of the process can be used to create other industrial chemicals and plastics. This further reduces independence on fossil based oil products. The process under development will [...]
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