"Renewable" Gasoline ?
Posted by Srikant Rajan | # |
09:19:58 am on June 10, 2008

Forget biodiseal,or ethanol,if Sapphire Energy is to be believe you can actually produce gasoline rather than drilling holes in ground, extracting crude oil and further processing it.Sapphire ,has developed a radical new method for developing commercial grade gasoline from bio- feedstock.This process essentially employs algae as a feedstock ,which is grown and later processed to produce high octane gasoline.The advantages associated with this process are numerous such as the freedom to use non – arable land as well as  saline or brackish water for algae cultivation.Additionally Sapphire  says that the infrastructure required for his entire process is "modular, transportable and fueled by sunlight-not constrained by land, crops or other natural resources".

This new development has given an ample demonstration regarding the viability of biofuels.However it remains to be seen if the cost associated with this entire process justifies the carbon free "renewable"gasoline so produced.

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