The Biology and Business of Biofuels: Algae as Biofuel

[BLACKPUSSYPUNISHER]

"MAN MADE" GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTH!!!! AND IF THESE SO-CALLED ELITES ARE REALLY CONCERNED FOR THE ENVIRONMENT THEN THEY WOULD MINE FOR (LUNAR HELIUM-1)....1 SPACE SHUTTLE FULL OF LUNAR HELIUM-1 COULD POWER THE UNITED STATES FOR A WHOLE YEAR. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!

[shaewu]

the concept of GM anything is fundamentally flawed. All GM actually means is that a business or country is losing market share in whatever they wish to GM up. So to keep domination & control of that resource they GM so they can make the product cheaper or maximise its yield or claim IP rights on that product or its by-products. Algae is 1of that fastest growing organisms on the planet growing exponentially in a signal day. when people are involved there are no completely closed systems

[JenandAnthonyM]

we all consume different types of DNA all day long, about a gram or so a day, it does not change your body, if you eat a bug, you do not express the bugs genes, yet you consumed it's DNA, it is just a dead molecule. GMO's should be kept in a closed system, but if it does get out they will be selected out naturaly

[BioBusterr]

the second guy needs to work in his pronunciation, i hardly understood him............. o.O

[shaewu]

The second guy is a utter Quack. The one who wants to genetically modify. These types of people make me sick and are one of the main reasons why people are ill from their food in the USA and anywhere else who buy their filthy GM poison. The guy wants to go the quick insane way, the one path which lacks true understanding. He just said he does not know all the strains of algae on the earth and we must find them. Then he say na I drought they will be any good anyhow so let’s GM some up

[thekaizer666]

@shaewu nothing wrong with GM algae IMO as long as it's a closed system, since the final product will be concentrated on being converted into fuel to burn. Won't be used for food... Seeing that these also produce oxygen and process waste and carbon dioxide, even if there was escape into natural environ, the eco damage can't be that bad, can it? Yeah I doubt anyone can answer that question though. Hmm..

[bobstevefrank123]

@shaewu Do you wish to explain why the concept of GM is "bad"?

[Jacobrester]

Lets just take global warming out of the equation and focus on gettint the USA energy independent.....Al Gore and his environmental wackies have been exposed

[Skoda130]

@Jacobrester I totally agree. It would even be better for all the countries possible, to be energy independent. And I think it would also realize a slightly more peacefull world, since trade woudn't be based on "who sits on the resources" anymore.

Knowledge and service will be the new markets.

[BLACKPUSSYPUNISHER]

@Jacobrester-I agree with you 100%, but like I saw in the documentary, "The Great Global Warming Swindle", as stated in the documentary, the ONLY way that you are going to get government grants for almost ANYTHING especially in this terrible economy, is if you connect it with Global Warming. If you say that you want to do research on frogs, the Gov. will not give you the money, but If you say you want to do research on how Global Warming affects frogs, then the Government will give you the money

[datzfast]

why is the speaker talking like a British subject of the queen. i already am suspicious of what he says because of it.

[BiomasseNutzung]

Very inspiring presentation for everybody who is working in the biofuel branch! Its focussing on the biological components, environmental impacts and economical chances which algae concepts are offering with the background of climate change. Impressive were to me the big algae ponds, which already exist in Hawaii. I liked it a lot, thank you for this presentation!

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[travelbytommy]

While I like the idea of algae for many reasons like the incredible amount of oil you can extract per acre, and the fact that we can reduce our foriegn oil consumtion, I still think global warming is a massive hoax.

[osu45d]

on what grounds?

[travelbytommy]

what grounds? How about he thousands of emails about date manipulation that have come out recently, or the fact that the world has been cooling every year since 1998, or the fact that the polar ice caps grew 30% larger over the last year, or that the polar ice caps are larger now than in 1979 when the same people claimed we were going into another ice age. I think algae biofuels are a great idea and hope it gets developed further, but the idea of global warming is such a stupid one.

[datzfast]

no global warming is real the hoax is that its man made.

[travelbytommy]

You are right, I should have said man made global warming. Even global warming in general exists, but the trends point towards cooling and not warming, which is why Al Gore and the hoax people changed it to "climate change". The biggest thing is that Al Gore and the others aren't practicing what they preach. Al Gore recommends his followers take public transportation to cut down on emissions, yet he flies in a Gulfstream II, one of the worst poluting private jets ever.

[PHYTO4LIFE10]

PHYTO4LIFE LOL

[hypnofan35]

As far as i know, the best way to transport CH4 or methane is PIPELINE. It can be transported better by pipeline than any other fuel. Plus with the advent of modern materials, there is huge areas for invention and handling, Individuals who wished to could own their own energy farm as the roof of their home or their back yard canopy. It probably won't be "smelly" or "messy". There is also a good chance people can store most of their need for cold in an "ice reservoir" and H2O heat reservoir.

[hypnofan35]

Big Biz is going to want to confuse, convolute, and establish a process that is inefficient but profitable. No big deal, because this is just how the business mind works. They are going to try to get more of your money by some proprietary process that is difficult to do. Centralization works for fossil fuel mining, but it will try to take a maximize bite out of the biofuel industry. If Methane can be produced from cow flop in a digester, it cannot be all that difficult. Please think about it

[hypnofan35]

Whatever is done, it should not be centralized and capitalized and protected by "Biggity Money". Used to be people would go get their heating fuel, but now they might be able to grow their own fuel and turn it to electric power while saving the heat for heating, Clean energy, future, agriculture capture the sun's energy, localize and keep from giving :Biggity Bucks" from making you poor.

[hypnofan35]

Corn ain't good for maximizing caloric out put and it wastes land. Ethanol ain't good because it has poor caloric density and the kids will try to drink it. Ethanol is good for some things but methane can be compressed and does not need further refinment. Probably Wells Fargo wants a big money solution (for them). In a situation like this there will be a glut of people trying to create a system with huge waste of process efficiency. Think Algae to methane to your house. Don't convolute this!

[hypnofan35]

Seems like no one wants to lay it out straight. You want a system that will fix carbon by capturing sunlight, then turn it into the best, most storable, cleanest burning, easiest to transport. If algae were dried and pelletized it could be burned like dry fuel. If it were turned into methane it could be used to decentralize and have clean electric generation while saving the heat generated for heating. How do you do that? 3 words: insulated water reservoir. Methane is the best fuel.

[hypnofan35]

The other advantage of having a localized or home power plant run on methane is you can capture clean water from the exhaust, and push the CO2 into your alge growing operation giving it an environment with CO2 and no O2. This would be a strong enhancemnt to the growth of algae in a high CO2 environment. In this way everyone could play a part in producing a energy, and it would not be Big Ass business and a far more stabile financial environment. It will be your biz run by AI and sun.

[hypnofan35]

Methane is the simplest energy dense hydrocarbon molecule and likely one of the first or the first "chemical compounds" in "creation". It's an essential building block of life, but also a waste product of simple life process. I like to call it "Super Jesus Gas" because it is by far the best fuel to use for engines/heat. They say it's modern, but it is actually billions and billions older than life as we know it. The only better fuel might be H2 gas, but cannot be made cheaply.

[Doversreturn]

global warming is a hoax, peak oil is not!

[MaelMan82]

get buddy that started the Weather Network and his 9,000 PhD scientists to debate this guy on his asertions... that I would be interested to see

[chinable]

algae is the shit

[brendo80]

the rockafellas made the most amount of money in the last depression if anything they might be rubbing their hands together waiting for the next one.

"Mike Ruppert" has some great facts on these guys

[brendo80]

***the did not mention corn its the lowest on the list.

Ethanol 85, what a cruel joke and a scam

[Watchdis44]

I'll have to look that up but, I don't trust anything the Rockefellers say. Study the UN & CFR.

[jburt56]

It's a good bet that this one will be very high on the action plan.

[Watchdis44]

Jburt56, don't count on it. Big oil is interested in only one thing, the BIG money they make from fossil fuels.

[jburt56]

The Rockefellers are pressuring ExxonMobil to undertake more alternative energy investment according to the Wall Street Journal 5/24/2008.

[jprint24]

supply of traditional petrol products will eventually diminish, but until then the big boys will not have the incentive to implement the infrastructure needed to "scale up"

[jburt56]

The supply is diminishing now. We are at peak oil.