ICR article image.
ICR article image.
Cool, but the real question is, how much energy in the form of diesel oil is produce, versus the energy cost to produce it?
Interesting, any idea on the ratio of potential energy being produced in the Bio-Oil vs. the amount of energy utilized to create the Bio-Oil?
I probably wrote that wrong, but I’m unsure of how to make it clearer than that.
How much algae needed for a barrel? Cost produce a barrel?
Weatherley, D. K. and R. W. Henley. 2013. Flash vaporization during earthquakes evidenced by gold deposits. Nature Geoscience. 6 (1759): 294-298
I'm not going to go dig this paper up, but I'm willing to bet it does not say gold is created by earthquakes.
Sounds like you need an algae pool as big as the Great Lakes to make it work.
I imagine that the “GW” crowd will still view the result as another part of the human “carbon footprint” and in spite of the “renewable” aspect, will not be supportive.
Diesl is composed of 75% saturated hydrocarbons and 25% aromatic hydrocarbons - with an average formula of C12H23, and with a range of formulas from approx. C10H20 to C15H28.
I don’t think the algae-process is changing much about that, and, thus for the “GW crowd” not much about it’s “carbon footprint”. (NOT a top concern of mine.)
