Algenol's Algae-to-Ethanol Delivers 67% to 87% Reduction in CO2

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by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 10.25.10

Compared to Gasoline
Algenol is working on making ethanol from algae in photobioreactors connected to power plants. Like with all types of biofuels, the most important question with algae-ethanol has always been: Is it really greener than fossil fuels? And if so, how much? A team from Algenol and Georgia Tech tried to answer that question by doing a life cycle analysis (LCA) on the whole process of making Algenol's ethanol, and the results were published as an open access paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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