Biocrude? Algae-to-oil project aims to deliver

MSNBC ^ | 10/27/2006 | Staff

[Red Badger]

A California company and a Department of Energy research lab have announced that they're teaming up to make oil out of algae — a potential fuel source that would be low species of algae are promising, LiveFuels said, but the fats — at prices around $1,200 a pound — are cost prohibitive.

"'Fat algae' doesn't sound like a biocrude oil feedstock, but the petroleum we use today is derived from prehistoric biomass (including algae)," LiveFuels said in a statement announcing the joint venture. "Nature's biomass decomposition process occurred over millions of years under conditions of enormous heat and pressure. Much of the petroleum we use today began some 200 million years ago in the Carboniferous Period. The deposits of oil pumped from the North Sea, for example, consist partly of decomposed haptophyte algae called coccolithophorids."

"The challenge," LiveFuels said, "will be growing and transforming algae cheaply into biocrude within days rather than millennia."

LiveFuels Chief Executive Officer Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones says her company hopes to "grind down costs" across the process — from finding the right strains, to harvesting and final production.

[Red Badger]

Rest in Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......

Diesel "Ping" List: If you want on or off the DIESEL "KNOCK" LIST just FReepmail me........

This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days......

[pointsal]

Now, if this outfit can grow it on sewer plant sludge and get clean water as a by-product, it would be a trifecta.... gas, poop, water

[roaddog727]

What about "Garbo-diesel"?

I would imagine that we produce enough waste in the states to make that economically viable, no?

[MadIvan]

There are so many initiatives out there, one is bound to be successful.

Regards, Ivan

[Red Badger]

Garbo-Diesel? I Vant to be a fuel.........

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708013/posts

[DungeonMaster]

Soilent Red, or should I say Oilent Red

[Red Badger]

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/renewable/biomass.html

[Red Badger]

Oily! Oily! Gas is free!.......

[Red Badger]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708013/posts

[Strategerist]

The deposits of oil pumped from the North Sea, for example, consist partly of decomposed haptophyte algae called coccolithophorids."

Somehow I doubt Jerome Corsi will notice this article. "Coccolithophorid" is probably a word that's way too long for him, anyway.

[Red Badger]

"Coccolithophorid"

Sounds like something you'd hear in a gay bar................Not that I would know, of course.......

[ckilmer]

A british company makes greenhouses for desalination that convert saltwater to freshwater to produce high value fruits and vegetables. It would be easier to grow algae to produce biofuel.