Firm plans to produce biodiesel from algae

www.stuff.co.nz ^ | 11/29/2006 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Sounds like a real gem of a project........

[Red Badger]

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

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[TommyDale]

I wonder if they would like to clean my pool?

[Uncledave]

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[The Old Hoosier]

One acre of algae can produce 92,000 litres of bio-diesel, compared to 350 litres produced from one acre of a sun-flower seed farm, he added.

Per day?

[Red Badger]

I don't know if green algae is viable......

[My2Cents]

The closest thing to running our vehicles on water.

[TommyDale]

Well, it was worth the thought. :-(

[Red Badger]

No, I think that's annually......

[Overseez]

If they can pull this off, it is the absolute best hope for the future of biodiesel. I laugh when I hear of people trying to do it with rapeseed or other oils. The yields are just too low. Algae is the right answer.

The American West is the ideal place for such a scheme... algae needs a good carbon source, and plenty of sunshine, so an electric plant on the edge of a desert would be the best place to put one...

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[llevrok]

I wonder if they would like to clean my pool?

After a few cigars and a night out, I've got a lot of algae on my tongue

[Overseez]

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[Kenton]

I have a dream, in which all the oil-rich emirates have fallen into decay and the people have devolved to their previously nomadic lifestyle, and the only use they have for their oil is to light the lamps in their tents.

I read an article the other day about how new developments in solar technology will allow solar collectors to operate much more efficiently than the older models, producing many times more KWH than they do today, and cheaper.

Alternative fuel sources haven't been practical in the past. Now there's a real reason to develop the technology to make them practical. That's a good thing for us and a bad thing for all those middle-easterners who use our oil money to make war on us.

[Overseez]

After a few cigars and a night out, I've got a lot of algae on my tongue.

That's not algae. That's elephant poop. Those Monte Cristos seemed like a good idea after the Scotch... until the next morning.
It could only be elephant poop. Nothing else.

:-)

[milwguy]

I believe this is per year, or the one crop of sunflower seeds versus constant havesting of algae for bio diesel. Saw another article by a physics prof in the US who estimated if we used i/8th of the land size of our Sonoran desert, we could replace oil. Not that he said it was feasible and/or environmentally safe, but merely that it would take that much land under algae farming to do the trick.

For those who laugh and are skepitcal, wait and see. I think the real opportunity will lie in third world african countries with no environmental restrictions, access to the sea, and a big mass of scorching desert to use.

[Red Badger]

92000 Liters = 24,303.8 US Gallons

[timer]

These proposed projects are coming practically every day now, but it's always 5 years in the future isn't it? Sadly, we've had the non-polluting, non-nuclear answers for over 10 years now, but nobody wants to listen...

[Red Badger]

....no environmental restrictions, access to the sea, and a big mass of scorching desert to use

Like Saudi Arabia?.......

[Uncledave]

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