Sean O’Hanlon, executive director, American Biofuels Council: “It’s algae — period. There’s so much upside to algae. I’ve yet to find a downside.”
Mark Stowers, vice president of research and development at Poet LLC: “They’re not making gasoline from algae today. They don’t know what the costs will be. And there are a lot of uncertainties with regard to tailpipe emissions.The thing to bear in mind is that ethanol is here today, it’s a proven fuel. It’s been used in cars for going on 29-plus, 30-plus years. And it’s proven to improve the fuel quality in terms of tailpipe emissions.”
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Curtis Dyle | Aug 24, 2009 | Reply
Ethanol by fermentation whatever the feedstock has a big problem which is the energy requirements of distillation. The oil seed and algae oil systems do not have this problem. Eigher ethanol finds a way around distillation or the algae and oil seed fuels will always have an energy advantage.