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"Questions about ethanol have emerged with new feedstocks that seem capable of producing multiple biofuels, including those molecularly identical to hydrocarbons.

Regalbuto said biomass-derived hydrocarbons -- those produced from forest waste, cornstalks, switchgrass, woody biomass and algae -- are molecularly similar or identical to petroleum-derived hydrocarbons and might be used in existing energy infrastructure.

"If recent technological innovations result in competitive production costs, hydrocarbons rather than ethanol will likely be the dominant biofuel," wrote Regalbuto, who directs NSF's catalysis and biocatalysis program.

Sean O'Hanlon, who founded the Florida-based American Biofuels Council in 2007, said algae-based biofuels show the most promise at the moment.

"It's algae -- period," O'Hanlon said. "There's so much upside to algae. I've yet to find a downside."

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/08/21/21greenwire-ethanol-producers-warily-eye-algaes-bloom-35329.html