Pondscum may power future

Scientists predict algae ethanol could outperform corn, soybeans



3/21/2008 6:00:00 AM
Courtesy of Oregon State University

Elizabeth Larson
Capital Press

Say the word "biofuel" and what first pops into most peoples minds' is corn, soybeans or switchgrass for ethanol.

But the burgeoning biofuels field has another star waiting in the wings - algae.

In the Sustainable Technologies Lab at Oregon State University-Corvallis, Assistant Professor Ganti Murthy is leading a team of student researchers who are researching how to efficiently distill algae into ethanol.

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