Green Gold - The future of gasoline?

[Greebo]

http://www.leftlanenews.com/green-cr...html#more-7582

Move over biodiesel and watch out ethanol, there's a new biofuel on the block. California-based Sapphire Energy has announced that it has created a process that nets ASTM certified 91-octane gasoline from little more than algae, sunlight and waste water.

Ok, THIS is officially cool sounding!!!

[Greebo]

Oops I meant to put this in the Green section. Can any mods move it?

[Ceashels]

Wow, thats awesome. Every major metropolitan area has a wastewater plant and how difficult would it be to build the added modifications for an algea produced fuel. Just about every area would be able to create its own fuel supply for local consumption without destroying the environment or depleting the finite based resources.

[Greebo]

One thing I noted was the environmental benefit to this is *only* apparently in the refining process. Once it's gasoline, presumably burning it will produce the same byproducts as regular gas.

So it will be interesting to see how the environmental community reacts.

[Russ]

One thing I noted was the environmental benefit to this is *only* apparently in the refining process. Once it's gasoline, presumably burning it will produce the same byproducts as regular gas.

So it will be interesting to see how the environmental community reacts.

I bet you can guess.

[Greebo]

I probably can, but I'm reserving judgment. They may surprise us and hail this as a better short term alternative to oil because it *is* cleaner to produce, and when you're talking about billions of gallons of gasoline a year, well, that's a big improvement.

Not to mention the fact that it uses wastewater...