Sentences with phrase «algae biofuels per»

If 60 million acres of land, approximately the area of Oregon, were given over to algae cultivation, «we could reasonably produce 300 billion gallons of algae biofuels per year.»

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One of the major problems with biofuels that algae could solve is space, since algae can yield as much as 100 times more fuel per unit area than other so - called «second generation» biofuel crops (e.g. non-food crops or non-food waste parts of food crops).

It can be turned into100 litres of biofuel per tonne of algae, or as is being done at St. Mary's right now, fed back into the cement plant to replace coal or coke.

Algae is extremely attractive as a natural resource for biofuel production because of its tremendous efficiency at conversion of sunlight into a usable biofuel, up to 30 times more energy per acre than terrestrial crops.