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Biofuel development switching to marine algae

Today, the most fervent attention in biofuel development has shifted from soil to the sea, and specifically to marine algae. “Algae yields five to 10 times more bioenergy molecules per area, per time, than any terrestrial plant,” said Mitchell, a…

Biomass could supply world power and fuel

Two German professors suggest that biomass could produce all the energy and fuel for the planet if fast-growing trees were planted on degraded land not used for food production. Thus, we would have sufficient fuel and electricity from biomass without…