Posted on 07/05/2008 7:54:19 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
You are very correct. I was reading about the process steps of dilution, micro-emulsification, pyrolysis and transesterification needed to make diesel fuel from algae. These refining processes I wouldn't want to do in my garage using today's off the shelf hardware. However, if invention could make a way to do it in a modular unit, you could run your full bloomed algae in, add ethanol and sodium ethanolate, and watch diesel fuel come out of one tube and glycerol out another. Sort of a high tech bread maker.
I hope we can just start drilling in ANWR so we can stop thinking so hard and just turn American Idol back on!
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