Next Big Bio-Fuel – ALGAE
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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
July 27th, 2010 at 6:40 am
@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 .
July 27th, 2010 at 6:47 am
@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!
July 27th, 2010 at 7:07 am
where they get their CO2? the air CO2 is it enough for large production?
July 27th, 2010 at 8:06 am
“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.
July 27th, 2010 at 8:43 am
wow awesome
July 27th, 2010 at 9:07 am
Disgustingly green gold
July 27th, 2010 at 9:46 am
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July 27th, 2010 at 10:34 am
@ CriticallistenphileE while I am not a biologist (only mere the great chemistry, focus on the explosives) I know that the slight knowledge of base of alghe. Here perché così they are interested to try a made house version of the same system, with some natural one alghe. I know that not sarà effective like laboratory of production of the alghe, but l' hell, I have still wants to see what happens.
July 27th, 2010 at 11:24 am
@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.
July 27th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
@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.
July 27th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
@ AndrewDeLong This information is from the University of Washington department of science. A professor is the brains behind a book recently published about the use of biomass for the production of hydrocarbons. He spoke in one of my classes on how long the algae is the only plan that makes sense if all the other plants are considered.
July 27th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
@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.
July 27th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
@ FhumnagadsPure l' demineralized water does not have nourishing. But l' present water in nature still has minerals in it. Moreover, the CO2 and l' same water acts as from nutriment for the alghe.
July 27th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
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July 27th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
@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.
July 27th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
cool stuff. Gas is going up to day
July 27th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
forests of algae National Geographic-polar, Antarctic sea. Carbon dioxide, apparently there are a lot of that course, as the dry ice
July 27th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Very cool video. . . .
July 27th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
@r8wing no you throw dog food or something in there for protein it eats it
July 27th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
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July 27th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
@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.
July 27th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
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.
July 27th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Water doesn’t have nutrients
July 27th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
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July 27th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
INVEST IN ORIGIN OIL!!!!!!