OriginOil mostra como as algas podem reduzir a dependência dos biocombustíveis em culturas alimentares

(Notícia em Inglês)
OriginOil, Inc. (otc/bb:OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to extract oil from algae and an emerging leader in the global algae oil services industry, identified serious dislocations caused by single-crop fuel policies and pointed to algae as a way to help make crops and waste more sustainable, in a presentation at the 6th Annual Meeting of the WRA Biofuels 2011 Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In his presentation "Solving the Food vs. Fuel Issue," OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry asked how it was that Brazil will import one billion liters of ethanol this year, after a bad sugar crop. "This wasn't supposed to happen," he said. "Given continued demand for both fuel and food, is this seesaw likely to stop?"

Eckelberry concluded, "In this zero-sum game, there can be only one winner. Food will always win, since biofuels can be replaced by fossil fuels."

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