Ford Joins the Algae Fuel Race
Ford joins the algae fuel race to better understand the use of biomass to produce future biofuels as part of an overall strategy to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil and address climate change. and they see algae as one renewable fuel it needs to study.
They planned to venture into this exciting domain when algae biofuel research received an added boost this spring through a bill introduced in the House, the Green Jobs Act of 2010, that offers investment tax credits for algae-based biorefineries.
This year, Ford researchers visited Wayne State University’s National Biofuels Energy Laboratory, which is actively analyzing suitable algae strains that could be used as a feedstock for biodiesel. The Ford researchers, part of the company’s Systems Analytics and Environmental Sciences Department, also have conducted in-house research on the opportunities and challenges of producing biodiesel from algae oil.
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