{"id":682,"date":"2008-10-30T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2008-10-30T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T12:01:00","slug":"algae-biodiesel-vs-cellulosic-ethanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/algae-biodiesel-vs-cellulosic-ethanol.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae Biodiesel vs. Cellulosic Ethanol &#8211; an interesting comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some comparisons:<\/p>\n<p>(1)  Algae can be converted into ethanol or diesel, depending on the process.<br \/>(2)  Cellulose feedstock, generally speaking, has a much larger geographic footprint than proposed algae designs.<br \/>(3)  Both algae and ethanol can be grown utilizing waste streams.<br \/>(4)  Cellulosic feedstock for ethanol is available  now.  Algae feedstock is not clearly ready.<br \/>(5)  For both of these very promising feedstocks, algae and cellulose, we are going to wait a few more years before we\u2019ll hopefully get a clear indication as to whether or not they truly emerge as major sources of transportation fuel.<\/p>\n<p>This report does not consider converting algae to ethanol, from what I understand but rather does a direct comparison between different feedstocks for ethanol and for biodiesel (algae). However, it is an interesting article.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/ecoworld.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/algae-vs-cellulose\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. Here are some comparisons: (1) Algae can be converted into ethanol or diesel, depending on the process.(2) Cellulose feedstock, generally speaking, has a much larger geographic footprint than proposed algae designs.(3) Both algae and ethanol can be grown utilizing waste streams.(4) Cellulosic feedstock for ethanol is available now. Algae feedstock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-products","category-algae-ethanol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}