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A short discussion of the possible fuels that scientists are researching (and making) using oils produced by algae. The possibilities are nearly limitless.

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Many people are under the impression that only diesel fuel (aka biodiesel) can be made from vegetable oil sources. This is normally the case when you´re talking about most vegetable oil sources. A notable and well-known exception is corn oil, which is use to make ethanol, a supplement (not replacement) for unleaded gasoline.

These restrictions are not true of algae, however. Because algae is a fairly simple organism with many thousands of species in nature, there is a lot of diversity to choose from. Also because of its simplicity, algae is relatively easy to manipulate into man-made species.

In algaculture (the growing of algae), the species and other factors used in choosing and manipulating the algae itself can create a diverse number of oils used for various types of fuels. Everything from normal vegetable oil, to biodiesel, bioethanol, biogasoline, biomethanol, biobutanol and other biofuels can be made from different strains of algae.

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