Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Alternative Energy-Algae





Algae Biofuels:


Pros: Algae is one of if not the most productive of all the plant-based biofuels in terms of production. It produces 60% of his weight in fuel, some producers plan to make 1,000 pounds of fuel per acre. Algae fuel is also planned to start becoming a major player in the energy race, two companies are set to make 50,000 gallons in 2013, so it already has a plan to become a viable option soon. It's also land-based rather then the largely ocean-based gasoline extraction, which could help heal the oceans.

Cons: Algae is seriously expensive to turn into fuel, straining, refining, and changing the algae into oil is a huge thing to adopt, and the 2013 50,000 gallons plan has already cost 3 billion, and that wouldn't even last a day for America alone. The amount of land that would be taken up by algae farms is a lot. Also for some, killing and manipulating algae being that it is a life-form could be considered immoral.

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