http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-daily-sprout-36/ Sat, 26 May 2012 06:36:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-daily-sprout-36/#comment-7341 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:21:23 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/09/19/the-daily-sprout-36/#comment-7341 Re: Solazyme etc. While we’re waiting for extraction techniques for liquid biofuels from algae to come of age, I think we should consider simply burning dried algae directly in power plants. This would doubtless provide the quickest route to large-scale, carbon neutral fuel use. Algae, after all, are not that hard to grow. For example, wastewater runoff from the Mississippi River alone creates an algae bloom about the size of New Jersey every year in the Gulf of Mexico.

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