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A Chat with Greenfuel Technologies' Jack Lewnard
Posted at http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/02/algae_talk_a_ch.html by Mark Durham
An interview with Jack Lewnard, VP of Process Development at Greenfuel Technologies in Cambridge, Massachussetts
Excerpts:
1. Greenfuel is one of the first algae-based biofuel companies that uses algae bioreactor technology to convert CO2 from smokestack emissions to biofuels.
2. Greenfuel's closed-bioreactor system can be tuned to generate either biodiesel, ethanol, or methane
3. The key variable is the species of algae, which is selected according to the target biofuel. For biodiesel, a high-lipid species is chosen. For ethanol, you're looking for high starches; for methane, optimal anaerobic digestion of the biomass.
4. In some instances, 80 percent of daytime CO2 recapture rate has been observed by GreenFuels
5. Lewnard has been asked to present at the annual meeting of the National Academy for the Advancement of Sciences in San Francisco later this month.
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