{"id":191,"date":"2006-10-12T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2006-10-12T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T20:13:00","slug":"forecasting-future-of-ethanol-biodiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/forecasting-future-of-ethanol-biodiesel.html","title":{"rendered":"Forecasting the Future of Ethanol & Biodiesel"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are at: Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>; see also: Oilgae – Oil & Biodiesel from Algae<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Matt @ Biodiesel in the News<\/a>, in this article<\/a><\/strong> on the future prediction for ethanol and biodiesel, provides a nice summary of another (guess longer) article on the future predictions of production volumes of biodiesel and ethanol..<\/p>\n

This is indeed an interesting topic…All across the world, the growth rates of biodiesel are stupendous…which is not unusual for any good product in its initial stages…what is of concern is that many companies seem to rushing in with feedstock such as corn and soy, when there is still a raging debate on whether these are the optimal feedstock…for instance, it is well-known that soybean oil’s yield is much lower than that for palm oil…similarly for the ethanol side, there is a view among scientists that cellulosic ethanol (such as the ones from switchgrass etc) will be more suitable for a sustainable future…<\/p>\n

And amongst all these chaos, folks such as http:\/\/www.oilgae.com<\/a><\/strong> are doing some research on the viability of using algae as feedstock to produce biodiesel (and perhaps even ethanol – a less likely one though)…<\/p>\n

When this is the case, many watchers of the biodiesel & ethanol industry can be excused for comparing this with the dot com boom…though the parameters and objectives\/motivations are entirely different, the speed with which companies are moving in with various feedstock without doing their homework should mean that investors have to be more wary…else they might face the same fate as many dot com investors did…sit with a feedstock which simply cannot grow into the future<\/p>\n

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You are at: Oilgae Blog; see also: Oilgae – Oil & Biodiesel from Algae Matt @ Biodiesel in the News, in this article on the future prediction for ethanol and biodiesel, provides a nice summary of another (guess longer) article on the future predictions of production volumes of biodiesel and ethanol.. This is indeed an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-biodiesel-ethanol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}