Chem321:Discussion 10

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Look at the winners of the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge, and pick out one winner. Below (under the header with your name), describe how the technology exemplifies green chemistry, and also mention any shortcomings or limitations of the technology.

Post an answer on one such technology by 11:59pm on Wednesday, July 29th, 2015. Then post one followup comment on another student's answer by 11:59pm on Friday, July 31st, 2015.

Katie Fetcie

Grant Gallagher

Alexander Levitz

Triston Riley

2015 Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change Award. The technology that won this award was The Algenol Biofuel Process, this process developed a blue-green algae to produce ethanol and other fuels. This exemplifies green chemistry because of the fact that this is a smart way to create a cleaner fuel. It is also a good way to reduce the carbon foot print from creating gas with ethanol thats in it. So not only does this technology reduce our environmental impact, but it is a sophisticated new method for developing and or replacing gasoline better. The only real limitation of this technology is the fact that it only converts 80% of the photosynthetically fixed carbon into ethanol, and also that they can only absorb so much photons, and actually still be able to use them for this process. Rileytc197 (talk) 08:31, 28 July 2015 (EDT)


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Jillian Visser

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