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24 Comments
this is amazing!
Awesome, science!
Three questions:
Why was one of the algae bag’s liquid yellow?
Why did he compare algae farming to traditional farm land when that is not
where we get our energy? We get it from oil/coal/natural gas.
What is the water to fuel ratio in this process? For all I know it could
take a swimming pool of water for one gallon of fuel.
Such a cool idea!
This is the future of energy! We need this now, fUck the Oil companies –
they better not kill this new discovery just like the electric car when it
first debuted.
Good luck competing with the money hungry oil companies!!!
One of the problems I’ve seen with bio-diesel is that it gels when used in
higher concentrations (above 5%-10%) in severely cold climates like
Northern Minnesota, even with additives designed to prevent it from
gelling. So, does this form of algae-produced bio-diesel have a lower
gelling temperature than that which is currently in production using corn
and other plants?
The other issue with using pure bio-diesel is that some manufacturers state
that you will void the warranty if you use above a certain percentage of
bio-diesel. This can make using it a potentially expensive proposition.
Personally, I’m for using green technologies & fuels as much as possible.
However, all environments where these can potentially be used must be taken
into account before we try to switch everything over to this kind of
technology. So, keep up the good work and please remember that not everyone
lives in environments where this kind of technology can be used in it
current form.
Good Luck!
See we need to know how to control nature more and not destroy it
Perfect for the transition period between Gas to Electric transportation on
a mass scale.
Unfortunately the efficiency of photosynthesis to fuel is fairly low. Much
more exciting and I believe more promising is materials based artificial
photosynthesis / fuel catalysis which has already surpassed natural
photosynthesis efficiency
all we need to do bluk it up just think 10 -15 floors and 50 acres = to 500
acres at ???
if everyone had this in their basement. boom
I’d like a full documentary on this fuel.Everytime i hear bout it, some
questions remain unanswered.
*The gist about Algae fuel*
Energy density close to diesel, much cleaner, 30 times more efficient than
any other plant, you can grow it from a single cell then scale up, it grows
anywhere even using sewage water in the desert, doesn’t need much land, and
nothing goes to waste.
So… when?
It is greener, it is more efficient, it is cheaper and… it is not ready
to market. :D
2 words… Hemp Ethanol…
I live in northern Ohio, Lake Erie is having one of the largest algae
blooms in recent years caused by fertilizer run off. So can the algae be
harvested and used as fertilizer? Hey my font??? cat must have walked
across my keyboard
Pumping mass quantities of spent algae fumes into the air? This is the same
as living in a molded house. Does anyone else not see where this is not the
best idea? Not to mention the amounts produced are not currently practical
for fuel use. This is right up there with those home made hydrogen cars.
The materials and large scale production required does not meet consumption
amounts. Biodiesel still stands as the only realistic replacement for
current fuels. However realistically we will never get every human to
switch to diesel motors and deal with the processes involved to turn the
used cooking greases and oils into fuel.
bio-fuels combined with plug-in hybrids is the future, along with electric
cars! Airplanes should use Algae-fuels also :)
Hey.
I live in Kenya, Africa we have a small bio-fuel producing research company
majorly dealing with algae. I was wondering do you have to add to it more
carbon(IV)oxide.
Im on board. Everyone could raise awareness for this. This is the solution
we’ve been waiting for and such a simple one at that! Nature always
provides if wed only just pay attention to what its showing us.