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After 29 years and $200 million...
... we may a a decent substitute for gas.
After 29 years and $200 million Algenol has discovered how to produce algae biofuel at only $1.27 per gallon. This process is a significant improvement on biofuel yield, producing 8,000 gallons per acre/per year. Such efficient production compares favorably to sugar cane (800 gallons per acre/ per year) and corn (420 gallons per acre/per year). It is especially important to note that this process is more sustainable than other methods in that no arable land is used to produce the biofuel. This process uses flexible plastic film photobioreactors to grow blue-green algae with saltwater and carbon dioxide to produce sugars which are converted into ethanol and biomass. The process is not only sustainable in that it is a potential leader in biofuel/ethanol production, but it also produces 1.4 gallons of clean water per gallon of fuel.
http://ecopreneurist.com/2014/04/17/algenol-produces-8000-gallons-algae-biofuel-per-acre-1-27-per-gallon/
After 29 years and $200 million Algenol has discovered how to produce algae biofuel at only $1.27 per gallon. This process is a significant improvement on biofuel yield, producing 8,000 gallons per acre/per year. Such efficient production compares favorably to sugar cane (800 gallons per acre/ per year) and corn (420 gallons per acre/per year). It is especially important to note that this process is more sustainable than other methods in that no arable land is used to produce the biofuel. This process uses flexible plastic film photobioreactors to grow blue-green algae with saltwater and carbon dioxide to produce sugars which are converted into ethanol and biomass. The process is not only sustainable in that it is a potential leader in biofuel/ethanol production, but it also produces 1.4 gallons of clean water per gallon of fuel.
http://ecopreneurist.com/2014/04/17/algenol-produces-8000-gallons-algae-biofuel-per-acre-1-27-per-gallon/
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Big deal if all is true.
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr
Only if they run on ethanol.
So you would need 17.5 million acres of Algeno to produce that much gas
That's a little less than half the state of Florida,
people complain how the coal miners stripped the land, can you imagine the amount of land that would be destroyed trying to do that type of farming in any large scale operation?
BLM has plenty to lease :wink
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr
UAE is also working on this. Aviation fuels.
When the oil runs out...the Arabs have enough desert to do it...
Many things to do.
Knots to be unraveled
'fore the darkness falls on you
Is that a fact?................:rotflmao
Many things to do.
Knots to be unraveled
'fore the darkness falls on you
We are finding new sources and new ways to extract oil that were not thought of decades ago.
The same will continue to happen.
Except to replace the Fuel, Gas and Diesel, BTU for BTU, one will need somewhere in the range of 240 billion Gallons of Ethanol.
Things like this change with time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWWOJGYZYpk
Federal government can't wait to spend are tax money for this crap.
Middle East knows they need positioning for post-oil. If they invest heavily, our domestic players become a liability.
The incentives are meant to combat this.
The biodiesel fuel is a good idea if they can produce it on a large scale. Lots of good ideas that work in the lab tend to fall flat when scaled up. They can use all that land in Nevada that was used for nuclear warhead testing to put up the plant to produce the algae diesel fuel. A little enhanced background radiation isn't going to make much difference.
Systems will be engineered around energy related business verticals.