Replacing Oil

There’s a great deal of commotion about the role biofuels may or may not have in current food price increases. I suppose it’s easy for goofballs like Rush Limbaugh to point their finger at the biofuel industry and scream that the land should be used to grow food not fuel. It’s not hard to understand how so many Americans are so easily fooled into believing that such nonsense. The argument against growing corn and/or wheat for biofuels has some merits but the facts don’t back it up.

Regardless, we would like to remind the everyone that edible crops aren’t the only way to make biofuels, take for example switchgrass and landfill gas. Both of these solutions to the food vs. fuel problem create less greenhouse gasses than oil and neither intrudes on land for farming edible crops.

Still not convinced that biofuels can be produced without encroaching on farmable land? Check this out:

Dirty swimming pool or the future of biofuels?

Companies like PetroAlgae and GreenFuel are racing to perfect their algae-based biodiesel programs. GreenFuel in particular has a brilliant plan to relieve power companies of their CO2 emissions and use it to feed their algae farms. If you haven’t noticed we love it when biofuel companies find ways of turning other peoples garbage into fuel.

How well does algae-based biodiesel work?

Good enough to impress the military! At the 2008 DESC Worldwide Energy Conference algae-based biodiesel demonstrated it’s superior cold weather properties. Not only can you grow this stuff on a dirty pond, but we can ship it to Sweeden!

Tags: algae, algae-based biofuel, biodiesel, Biofuel, greenfuel

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