Algae-based technologies for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductionh
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Algae-based technologies could provide a key tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants and other carbon intensive industrial processes.
Driven by escalating global climate change concerns and the rising cost of petroleum based energy, companies are now starting to examine using certain forms of algae to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, generate renewable transportation fuels, and produce feed for fish and livestock.
Using an intricate photosynthetic process, trendsetters have developed biodiesel and ethanol from an unlikely source – algae – that, given optimal conditions, can double its volume overnight. Up to 50 percent of an alga’s body weight is comprised of oil, whereas oil-palm trees–currently the largest producer of oil to make biofuels–yield just about 20 percent of their weight in oil.
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