Hello Jeromie >I have been looking into oil from algae and it seams like lots of talk >and nothing else.
That's quite right. Please see "Oil from algae": "... there is no such thing as biodiesel from algae apart from a few laboratory samples". <http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html#alg> All is explained. Also many previous posts in the list archives (searchable). >Is there something fundamentally wrong or missing >with the process? According to John Benemann, what's missing is $100 million or more and another 18 years. Well, hopefully less than 18 years. It'll almost certainly be industrial scale stuff though (probably with GMOs too), not for backyarders, not Appropriate Technology, so perhaps not very important when it comes to real solutions. Methinks too much of the talk is fired by folks who see it as the Great Green Hope that'll replace fossil fuels so we can all go on guzzling gas without a care as if there's no tomorrow. See "How much fuel can we grow? How much land will it take?" <http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html#howmuch> Best Keith >The growth part looks straight forward using >bioreactors. Getting the oil out of the algae looks simple enough, a >press and ultrasonics look to be able to hit a 75% Ive also got some >vacuum ideas for extraction. Once the oil has been obtained it follows >the same process as SVO. The waste product has many uses from live >stock feed to fish food to fertilizer. I am wondering if it would make >decent burning stock (to help feed the drying stage prior to the >pressing). Has anyone used algae oil and if so, is it any different >then SVO? I have not found hard numbers on the shelf live of algae >oils once extracted. Some sites say that the oil that comes out from >algae is chemically the same as crude oil. Does that mean it could be >processed in a standard oil refinery, and if so, could SVO? _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
