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Cultivation of seaweeds as abiomass source for energy
| Title: | Cultivation of seaweeds as abiomass source for energy. |
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| Name(s): |
Ryther, John H. Lapointe, Brian E. Stenberg, Richard W. Williams, Lavergne D. |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Date Issued: | 1977 | |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois. | |
| Place of Publication: | Urbana, IL | |
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| Extent: | 17 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | FA00007128 (IID) | |
| Note(s): |
The cultivation of photosynthetic crops for the
specific purpose of converting their biomass to
fuel is a new and, as yet, untried concept. The
basic technology for such an undertaking is, of
course, available in agriculture and the related
fields involved in the production of food and
fiber. However, the monetary value of plants
grown for such purposes is an order of magnitude
greater than their potential value as fuel
(Greeley, 1976), even if all of their stored energy
were recoverable. In view of the increasing
world demand for food and fiber, it therefore
seems unlikely that crops presently in production
will find competitive use as an energy
source in the foreseeable future, with the exception
of those portions of cultivated plants that
are not now utilized and are currently treated as waste. Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 66 This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Ryther, J. H., Lapointe, B. E., Stenberg, R. W., & Williams, L. D. (1977). Cultivation of seaweeds as a biomass source for energy. In J. T. Pfeiffer & J. J. Stukel (Eds.), Proceedings: Fuels from Biomass Symposium, (pp. 83-98). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. |
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| Subject(s): |
Seaweeds Marine algae culture Biomass Biomass energy |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007128 | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
