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I'm Jim Parks and this is Today's Green Minute.
Consider: an acre of palm can yield about 650 gallons of biofuel in a year. An acre
of canola yields 150 gallons, and an acre of soy will get you only 50 gallons a year.
Now consider the gallons of biofuel that some say can be produced in a year by an acre of
the lowly algae (yes, green, yucky algae): The answer is: 6,000! Wow! Algae gets the
attention of research teams from the likes of Dow Chemical and Exxon Mobil because it’s
an energy source that can be harvested year round…that doesn’t require land that can
be used for food…and that doesn’t even need clean water!
Well, that’s hard to ignore. But there’s more: algae LOVES to consume CO2, so how about
hooking up algae with power plants or industrial plants that produce too much CO2? Yeah, there
are big hurdles that have to be overcome in order for biofuel from algae to compete with
fossil fuels, but with such big potential…to the lowly green microbes known as “algae”
that are hard to ignore, we bow in your direction!
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