{"id":233790,"date":"2010-01-26T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1277\/study-says-algae-biofuel-has-dirty-life-dycle.html"},"modified":"2010-01-26T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T02:14:00","slug":"study-says-algae-biofuel-has-dirty-life-dycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/233790","title":{"rendered":"Study says algae biofuel has dirty life dycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"algae-biofuel\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ecogeek\/ecogeek-600520126-1264549199.jpg?ymPFRlCDLXE7SMyY\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Algae has seemed like a <a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/content\/view\/1481\/70\/\">great biofuel candidate<\/a> because it&#8217;s extremely efficent at creating energy from sunlight and it could potentially form closed loops for power plants &#8211; absorbing exhaust while creating new fuel &#8212; but a recent study has knocked algae off its pedestal.<\/p>\n<p>University of Virginia researchers have found that the life cycle of <a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/automobiles\/2942-first-algae-fueled-car-crossing-the-country\">algal biofuel<\/a> produces high levels of greenhouse gas emissions &#8212; much more than it sequesters.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit is the large amount of fertilizer used to produce the algae.\u00a0 The fertilizers come from petroleum-bases sources and emit nitrous oxide.\u00a0 The researchers propose using fertilizer from sewage plants as a way around the problem.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like we&#8217;re still far away from an ideal biofuel, if there is one.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e360.yale.edu\/content\/digest.msp?id=2241\">Yale e360<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/202zcfphru8\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algae has seemed like a great biofuel candidate because it&#8217;s extremely efficent at creating energy from sunlight and it could potentially form closed loops for power plants &#8211; absorbing exhaust while creating new fuel &#8212; but a recent study has knocked algae off its pedestal. University of Virginia researchers have found that the life cycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3950,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}