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Turning Algae Into Gasoline |
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Other alternative fuel companies such as Solazyme of South San Francisco, Calif., are using algae to produce biodiesel. Like ethanol, biodiesel attracts water and thus cannot be shipped in existing pipelines. Both ethanol and biodiesel also have lower energy density than traditional gasoline and diesel fuels. Pyle says Sapphire\'s green crude has the same energy density as gasoline and can be shipped in existing pipelines and refined the same way gasoline and diesel are.
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Tags : green crude, algae-oil-research,
Sub Topics - Biodiesel,
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