Next Big Bio-Fuel – ALGAE
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 at
9:21 am
Bryan Garner, News Channel 5 visits a farm in Fellsmere that produces algae which replaces crude oil. Fred Tennant (Vice President of Petroalgae) says it is cheaper than oil, a lot cheaper. Arizona State developed this Algae and or process. Bits of algae fed with carbon dioxide grow dark green. From seed to harvest in just two days. This video was taken before the gas reached the four dollar mark. The kick in the ass is that this company will not produce it for the public. So I don’t see it effecting pump prices, EVER! RECORDED IN MAY 2008
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@corduroy99 I believe all you need is water and sunlight , as algae always grows in my fish tanks after a few days , and I always put some algae eaters in there to clean the tank , but we still need to get past the oil companies and they will lie there ass off and kill people or threaten them to keep there game going , even when it pollutes the whole gulf and beyond , very insane , we need to get some real laws passed now that mandates oil usage ending , we dont need it , watch FUEL .
@supperstorm
all kinds of industry gases contain comparatively huge amounts of CO2 and are able to serve well for the algae growth. There also have been projects about this but it wasn’t “profitable” because of the low oil price in comparison to the algae product! What irony!
where they get their CO2? the air CO2 is it enough for large production?
“Something you might find in ponds or rivers, or even your bathroom.” If you have algae in your bathroom you need to do some cleaning. o_O But anyways, I really hope this takes off like fuck so we can stop stealing oil under the guise of counter-terrorism.
wow awesome
Disgustingly green gold
szuper…….. dr.Rémay László algamen
@criticallistenphile
And while I’m no biologist (just a mere chemistry major, focus on explosives) I know the basics of algae. This is why I’m so interested in trying a home made version of the system myself, with some naturally occurring algae. I know it won’t be as effective as lab produced algae, but hell, I still want to see what happens.
@criticallistenphile
This I know. But you said that you replaced the water in your system with city tap water, which means that the system is not closed 100% of the time. This means that “fuel” could get into the system which would allow the algae to continue it’s metabolic processes.
@AndrewDeLong Essentially, algae can grow in the harshest of environments, it doesn’t require actual land, and requires less energy input per hydrocarbon output than grass, corn, soy, etc. All others require environmental destruction to produce. Algae, does not. It can grow in the desert in tubes.
@AndrewDeLong This information comes from the University of Washington science department. A professor there is the brains behind a book recently published about the use of biomass in the production of hydrocarbons. She spoke in one of my courses at length about how algae is the only plant that makes sense when all other plants are considered.
@AndrewDeLong The system is completely closed, otherwise my computer would overheat and I’d always be low on water. It’s the same as a car’s cooling system essentially. There are no openings to allow for evaporation, and any leaks endanger the engine. Algae will grow in a closed system with no problem. It does need fuel for growth, but it does not need exposure to open air to grow.
@fhumnagads
Pure Deionized water has no nutrients. But naturally occurring water does have minerals in it. Also, the CO2 as well as the water itself acts as nutrients for the algae.
@criticallistenphile
Actually, the nutrients would come from the chlorine, which when used in city water, isn’t pure, but diluted with other substances, carbon being among them. Also, those clear tubes might be plastic, which is HEAVILY carbon based. Not to mention the way you describe it, you would have to have transferred the water to your system which could allow for any contaminants to enter the system. If algae grew in your coolant system it was definitely not a completely closed system
@criticallistenphile water from a air conditioner drain is about 10-30ppm from what I’ve measured here and city water is about 250-300ppm. Im sure that there are nutes enough in the city water to grow a batch of algie. I use the water from my air conditioner to fill the fish tank because if this.
cool stuff. Gas is going up to day
National Geographic- polar algae forests,sea of antarctica.Carbon dioxide,seemingly there’s alot of that naturally,like dry ice
Very cool video….
@r8wing no you throw dog food or something in there for protein it eats it
Algae are protists, not plants. They feed on carbon which can be found in the air or in water. This is a great concept for bio-fuel as it takes much less real estate, has a significant yield, and has very little turn around. Unfortunately, I don’t suspect we’ll be purchasing algae power of any variety any time soon.
@r8wing Although I understand your intentions, you have oversimplified algae’s ability to grow in water and completely underestimated it as a species. I have a water cooled computer. It has clear hoses so I can see the water in the inlet and outlet. I was supposed to use purified water in my system, but got lazy and used clorinated city water. After a while, I began to see stringy green stuff in the lines. It was algae. It grew in a closed loop system with no nutrients.
Dude, no organism can live on sunlight alone. Plants extract minerals from soil and use sunlight to convert them into organic matter and energy. Algae are plants, and have to extract their minerals from water.
Water doesn’t have nutrients
and also unlike corn, algae doesn’t effect global fuel supply and has an epic growth rate
INVEST IN ORIGIN OIL!!!!!!