Comments on: Next Big Bio-Fuel – ALGAE

By: vtdom1

vtdom1 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:02:24 +0000

INVEST IN ORIGIN OIL!!!!!!

By: fhumnagads

fhumnagads — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:18:03 +0000

and also unlike corn, algae doesn’t effect global fuel supply and has an epic growth rate

By: fhumnagads

fhumnagads — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:27:22 +0000

Water doesn’t have nutrients

By: r8wing

r8wing — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:26:55 +0000

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.

By: criticallistenphile

criticallistenphile — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:11:39 +0000

@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.

By: AdeptSix

AdeptSix — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:37:55 +0000

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.

By: justanothersheeple

justanothersheeple — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:19:51 +0000

@r8wing no you throw dog food or something in there for protein it eats it

By: Revgirl5

Revgirl5 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:52:25 +0000

Very cool video….

By: 2sillytube

2sillytube — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:32:33 +0000

National Geographic- polar algae forests,sea of antarctica.Carbon dioxide,seemingly there’s alot of that naturally,like dry ice

By: mrhardone

mrhardone — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:35:57 +0000

cool stuff. Gas is going up to day