Ethanol Easier Than Biodiesel, Says BP Scientist

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Michael Kanellos | July 24, 2009 at 3:17 PM

Ethanol or biodiesel? The debate has raged for years over which one has the greater potential for weaning the world away from fossil fuels.

Oil giant BP, or at least one of its scientists, leans toward ethanol.

"Biodiesel is much more problematic," said Paul Willems, technogy vice president in the energy biosciences department at BP, during a talk at the Synthetic Biology Workshop sponsored by UC Berkeley and Innovation Center Denmark. "The world does not have viable solutoins to biodiesel... It is pretty hard justifying dedicating acres to this kind of land use with the current yields."

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