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March 17, 2009 – 10:42 am | One Comment

Advanced Biofuels are high-energy liquid transportation fuels derived from: low nutrient input/high per acre yield crops; agricultural or forestry waste; or other sustainable biomass feedstocks including algae.  The key word is “sustainable.”
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Algae-Based Biofuel Could Power Gas Guzzlers of the U.S. Military

Submitted by admin on July 10, 2009 – 10:25 amNo Comment

by  Mike Stark (AP, MSNBC)    In December, DARPA awarded a $20 million contract to General Atomics and a $15 million contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), two San Diego-based research companies. The contracts ask the companies to find a biofuel surrogate for JP-8 — the petroleum-based fuel for military jets, planes and other vehicles.  Lab tests and smaller-scale experiments over several decades have shown that algae oil can be turned into fuel. But the military, which spent more than $12 billion on fuel in 2007, wants something large-scale and cheap.   …   The workload is being spread among subcontractors from universities and private research firms across the country.   READ MORE

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