What is it about?
Algal biofuels have been suggested to provide a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. This work reports that the likely productivity is ca less than 10% of popular claims. This raises doubts over the potential for algal biofuels.
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Why is it important?
Millions of $ have been spent over decades on selling algal biofuels - the hype appears unwarranted.
Perspectives
Having been involved in 2 multi million $ projects on algal biofuels, I now see that the future is not good for this idea. We would be better off using mass algal culturing for food security.
Professor Kevin J Flynn
Swansea University
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This page is a summary of: In silico optimization for production of biomass and biofuel feedstocks from microalgae, Environmental Biology of Fishes, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10811-014-0342-2.
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