freshwater algae Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:05:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Microalgae Biofuel an Alternative to Crop Biofuel https://www.greenoptimistic.com/microalgae-biofuel-an-alternative-to-crop-biofuel-20090704/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/microalgae-biofuel-an-alternative-to-crop-biofuel-20090704/#respond Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:29:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3905 Using crops as a source of energy generated in the past years a great controversy. Once because we could use those crops as food for people and second because we use good agriculture lands to generate energy. But what if we could use an alternative to the crops and use smaller areas of lands to generate the same amount of energy?

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/microalgae-biofuel-an-alternative-to-crop-biofuel-20090704/feed/ 0 3905 Korean Seaweed Biofuel not Using Usable Lands for Crops https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biofuel-from-seaweed-algae-20090122/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biofuel-from-seaweed-algae-20090122/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:09:39 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1795 Today, most of the liquid biofuels are sugar or starch based and are obtained from crops of sugar beet, sugar cane, potatoes or corn. A problem in the future could be the lack of lands. These crops use good lands on which food can grow instead. An idea to decrease use of proper agricultural lands would be to use the unproductive lands to obtain biofuels.

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