Friday, November 9, 2007

Biofuel News - AlgaeLink, Oxfam Report Biofuelling Poverty...

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Some related developments on the algae biofuel and related fronts...

The Dutch biofuel company AlgaeLink unveiled a new photobioreactor technology, which it claims will lead to increased yields and dramatically reduce installation costs. Hans van de Ven, president of AlgaeLink, said the new approach to creating algae-based biofuels would bring down costs...

Oxfam this week became the latest group to raise concerns about the environmental and humanitarian effects of European policies which have stimulated demand for first-generation biofuels. A report from the group entitled Biofuelling Poverty (PDF format) concluded that the EU target of gaining 10 per cent of transport fuels from biofuels by 2020 was leading to the rapid expansion of biofuel plantations in developing countries that threaten to "force poor people from their land, destroy their livelihoods, lead to the exploitation of workers and hurt the availability and affordability of food".

Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature's way again

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algOS - Biodiesel from Algae Open Source

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