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Originally Posted by SS107.9MHz
Great post ZS, I'm completely with you on this one; Algae Biofuels are a potencial fuel and waste problem solvers... This technology has to be supported by the governments just the same has the oil industry was when it first began. But there're also other effective sources for these, like sugar cane.. part of the bio-fuel failure in the US was the choice of maze as a ethanol fuel, which is a terrible option in terms of cost/benefit... I don't know how things are looking up in Sweden for example, weren't they launching a program to have 100% biofuel-only car market?
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We want to move away from food based biofuels completely. If you want to go the route of sunlight-starch-algae-diesel cycle there are certain types of algae that will consume even heavy materials like sawdust and crap grass without sunlight or Co2 to make lipids for fuels. It works but requires boatloads of material to make enough fuel because you are not utilizing energy from the sun or CO2 from smokestacks.