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The year in biofuels
January 1, 2007, By Cyrus Levesque @ Addison Independent
Excerpts:
1. According to Netaka White, executive director of Middlebury-based Vermont Biofuel Association, the industry in 2007 will see a large change to one of its smallest components: algae.
2. White expects that some researcher or company will find a controlled way to produce biodiesel from algae in the coming year. By 2008, he predicted algae-based fuel systems could be commercialized.
3. Pound for pound, algae is already an efficient way to produce oils that can be used to make biodiesel, but it isn’t commercially popular already because of problems finding a strain from which the oil can be easily harvested. “The challenge is to optimize production of algae in a contained, controlled environment,” White said.
4. A welcome side effect of algae-based biodiesel is that it could reduce pollution.
5. Nitrogen and phosphorus in animal waste can become a pollutant in waters and can cause algae blooms in lakes and rivers, but algae on farms would eat those waste products before they ever reach the lake and turn them into diesel oils.
6. From a September decision by Middlebury College to build a biomass-fueled power plant, to a decision by the Middlebury selectboard in July to heat town buildings with biodiesel, use of biofuels has increased significantly over the past year. White estimated that about 275,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel were burned in Vermont in 2005
7. White said that he has seen a lot of growth in research and production of biofuels locally.
Read the full report at Addison Independent
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