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Article

Publication Date

5-21-2007

Abstract

The Mexican company Biofields has announced plans to construct a plant on the Sonora coast that will produce ethanol from algae. The company hopes its facility, which eventually could produce about 2 billion gallons of fuel per year, would provide a viable alternative to corn-based ethanol. The price of corn has risen sharply in the past two years, partly due to a US campaign to promote the use of that commodity in the production of ethanol.

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English

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