Mass produced Gasoline from Algae is a reality next year in 2012

Re:Mass produced Gasoline from Algae is a reality next year ... by lutorm on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @08:57AM (#2489275)

I thought the idea was to make ethanol from the cellulose, not from the oil? (In corn, it's the sugar you use.) Plants have a lot more cellulose than sugar, so if you can utilize it for making ethanol, you tap a much larger potential source.

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Re:Mass produced Gasoline from Algae is a reality next year ... by oelewapperke on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @09:18AM (#2489344)

Cellulose is a horribly difficult material to do anything at all with. After drying it can be burned to produce heat, and that's pretty much all that's ever been done to it.

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Re:Mass produced Gasoline from Algae is a reality next year ... by lutorm on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @09:23AM (#2489365)

Well, it certainly isn't ready for prime time, but you can definitely make ethanol out of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulosic_ethanol

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