Biodiesel from Algae

"The remote Hawaiian island of Kona" Kona is not an island, and its not at all remote, it is a region of the largest of all the Hawaiian Islands, the "Big Island" of Hawaii and home to about 50,000 people. If this writer can't even get facts straight about that, what are we supposed to think about the accuracy of the rest of this article?

[jml1618]

Wanted to share some more information that has emerged regarding the 100,000 gallon per acre projections from Vertigro for its algae-based biodiesel production system developed by Valcent.

Valcent, which developed a system for growing algae on a commercial scale for Vertigro, projects that it can supply the whole of US gasoline consumption off 2,817 square miles of cultivation.

[sparky]

PetroSun has announced it will begin operation of its commercial algae-to-biofuels facility next month. The facility will produce an estimated 4.4 million gallons of algal oil and 110 million lbs. of biomass per year off a series of saltwater ponds spanning 1,100 acres.

First Algae Biodiesel Plant Goes Online: April 1, 2008 : Gas 2.0

[kev67]

Originally Posted by eclipse

This is the century of "peak resources", period!

<Pedantic> I thought period was American for full stop, and, when said, means no qualifying subordinate clauses introduced by a comma. Therefore, you just ended a sentence with ,.! </Pedantic>

[OH-IO1981]

im not very familiar with bio fuel algae. I did see a couple shows on it and it does seem very promising.

If I were a poker player I would go all in, with bio fuel algae being the bext big thing.

You may not have heard it here first. But you may have heard it for the 373rd time.

[oviedostyle]

Somehow I missed this discussion, I already posted this in the general energy forum. Here it is again.
I came across this PR from a company in San Diego, CA, USA
It talks about creating energy from Algae and growing it on ROOFTOPS!! I would rather grow it on rooftops than use the deserts.

Here is an excerpt I enjoyed

"First up: renewable gasoline. Critically important, in light of recent studies that prove the inefficiencies and costs of crop-based biofuels, there is no ‘food vs. fuel’ tradeoff. The process is not dependent on food crops or valuable farmland, and is highly water efficient."

Sapphire Energy - Press Release

[Windguy]

I see the future of Biofuel going to the ocean, they'll net off a massive area and place the harvesting and processing towers around the edges. Ships just load up and take it to whatever country ordered it. We don't need no water no more, but for food for the algae, dried sewerage from the country that ordered the delivery can be shipped back though the same ship.

[forfismum]

My take on this is that we will see a mix of sources for biofuels using land or sea areas which currently are not as productive as they might be.But we need to fund our Chemists and Biologists to speed up their work.All the money being wasted on wind and carbon credits should be put to good use here.
One thing that comes to mind when we talk of any alternative energy source is that governments [not scientists ] keep putting bloody targets in place,10% this by 2012,20% that by 2050.This leads to the farce of destroying farm and forest to meet spurious targets.You can send all the biofuel you like to my country but there is no infrastructure to deal with it.[other than the relativly small amount we produce ourselves.]You can build as many windmills as you can cram into our beautiful countryside but they wont do diddly squat if the wind is not blowing at plus or minus 0000.5% or whatever.

[BestTimesNow]

This video on the Valcent, algae bioreactor is pretty interesting. If what he says is correct this could be a big deal.

You could build a high production farm in the desert with very little water loss.

Bioreactor Video


Valcent Products Inc,. - Home Page - Tue Jul 15, 2008

[musicfreak313]

I heard about this from the documentary Fuel It's the same oil that is found to make gasoline. Fuel Blog | Fuel I recently attended the premiere of the film and I was touched. Any fuel is better than gasoline.

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