Algae Biofuels

[jusjetz]

Now thats what I'm Talkin About. In time, Our Survivle of our planet will b Comming true.

[loltehinternet]

How come all these retarded videos never tell you how to extract the oil?

[ericsyutubeaccount]

@loltehinternet im doing an honors project on extracting lipids from microalgae and using different growth mechanisms to get the highest percent yield of lipids from each crop!

[fedtheend]

they could grow it in the gulf of mexico because they need large area to do this. and now that there was a huge accident there and all the people will have to move, might as well use the area to grow the algae.

[mikehanoo33]

The real ecological nightmare is industrial agriculture. Switching to organic-style crop rotation will cut energy use on farms by a third or more: no more petroleum-based herbicides, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers. Fertilizer needs can be served either by applying the byproducts left over from the alcohol manufacturing process directly to the soil, or by first running the byproducts through animals as feed.

[seanotube85]

vertigro + craig venter's latest discovery of synthesizing life = sustainable oil forever... that is, if the oil companies don't decide to assassinate everyone or destroy his company. They are the bullies of this planet this rock that we all live on together. They will never be satisfied unless they're in charge (making our lives miserable).

[askaboutRudyV]

@seanotube85 I heard that brother. I was thinking the same thing. I was going to type: The people in these algae producing companies better watch eachother's backs and take care of eachother, and should be packing some heat, or atleast hire some heat packing security guards, because the Oilsters Mafias will put them down.

[billyhay]

it's like the matrix.....except we are the machines

[askaboutRudyV]

@billyhay HAHAHA, I thought the same exact thing, lol. :))) We are harvesting the algea for energy in this, lol.

[SilentEagles]

Algae biofuel & bio diesel is the future.  US will become first country to make biofuel and bio diesel to use on Cars, Trucks, Planes, other transportation, military war machines, & other. US will become richest like Saudi Arabia which hold a lot of oil.

[ceetable]

reduce our reliance on oil?

we are still using oil made by these protists

[BiomasseNutzung]

Thank you for this nice documentation. It is a good mix out of global pictures, interessting statistics and in addition some nice music. I also like algae a lot and the fantastic possibilities they offer! Some critical words: The presentation of other kind of biofuels is to negative and they the developed quit a lot in the last years.

[hydra8888]

his statistics are wrong. we do not emit that much co2 per year. Good message , though work on your science project a bit more.

[creamyfilling102]

face it. we've grown way too big as a society to be sustainable on any type of renewable fuel. all energy comes from the sun.. no matter which way you extract it, we'd still have to cover GYNORMOUS portions of our land to get where we need it and it would be horribly expensive.

[RobotBadger]

We need to find ways from the fat cats taking advantage of this, charging us large amounts of money, and taxing us no good reason. We need to fight them. We need to find ways to stop them in their tracks.

[relearningguitar]

i love that the background music in the beginning is from Jurassic Park

[fochie]

I Think we all know at this stage that this is the future of our renewable fuel source, Oil companies are now in on the act,which keeps them in buisness,Government fat cats are happy,Tax still applies,We all still go to the pump for fuel.

[walter0bz]

i'd like to compare:-

[1] growing Biofuel to drive car, + food to feed human

[2] growing Grass to power Horse,+ food to feed human

[3] Human + Bicycle (30kcals/mile)

i suspect the human+bike will wipe the floor with [1]&[2] for range given a certain area of land

[JonnyTommyGuns]

People should ride bicycles more lol. Especially here in America. It's "green", you'll save money, and lose weight or at least be healthier...

[walter0bz]

@JonnyTommyGuns - what level of ignorance was required to negate my comment.

a bike consumes the energy of a car headlight.

bikes are clearly the answer.

[ashtraymore]

I have a question. We find the technology to super-speed-up the process so we can have the same oil was given to us by nature million of years ago. GREAT!!! What about pollution, green house effect, and O-zone is this same oil we get from algae any different?

[crimsonsoul343]

The main difference between the oil we use now from fossil fuels and the oil derived from algae comes down the fact that algae uses up greenhouse gases in it photosynthesis to create the oil. True, burning the oil creates CO2 but that is negated by the CO2 used by the algae during it's growth cycle. Additionally, algae can use the excess CO2 from current power plants to aid in biofuel production and even waste water can be used to grow the algae.

[CarbonOxidizer]

yes.

First, the "o-zone" as you call it has nothing to do with hydrocarbon fuels.

Second, the CO2 released by burning biomass was not previously sequestered underground as it was in the case of petroleum. The CO2 released originally had to be fixed from the atmosphere by the algae in the first place.

[SgtAndrewM]

when the aglea is grown, it aborbs the same amouth on carbon dioxide as it realease when it burns, and is therefore, carbon neutral.

[1rootle]

Nope. no much different, but least we reduce more and more carbon release into the atmosphere, while try and learn to mitigate the green house effect, the ozone layers etc etc.

[jazzharp52]

@ashtraymore Any different, Yes. Completely different, No. All they're making from this algae is Bio-diesel, and it's NOT a a super-speed-up version of the same process. The natural process produces petroleum (toxic to humans), this process simply makes vegetable oil (safe to eat), adds a few chemicals (toxic to humans, but in small amounts that are taken out of the fuel before use), and then burn it. The green house effect is about the same, but carbon can be taken out of the air and feed to th

[japanezeboi]

@ashtraymore Here's an idea, learn about the subject before you fucking comment on it retard.

[Transfectingood]

33k gallons of oil per acre per year vs 30 for corn. Is that confirmed anywhere?

[DanieljDixon]

Stick to the benefits of algae, and skip the Enviro Ninny propaganda.

[dswanson2609]

Excellent job. Some of the yield numbers that are thrown around are too optimistic to be realistic. My own calculations are about 1700 gallons to the acre. Still not bad. Some of the numbers are actually ignoring photosynthetic efficiency, and just assuming that all of the sun that hits a given area will be converted to chemical energy. Would be nice, but thats not the way nature works.

[roidroid]

just as a correction: you say that corn only produces 30 gal/acre/year of oil.

But we don't grow corn for it's OIL (which is converted into biodiesel), we instead grow corn for it's sugars/carbohydrates that we convert into ETHANOL

Ethanol (from sugar/carbs) & Biodiesel (from plant oil) are not the same thing.

Some energy crops are grown for their sugar/carbs (ie: corn/sugarcane) others for their oil (ie: soy/palm/cotton/canola), and still others are grown for their biomass (ie: trees/bamboo)

[YouAdamNazzkl0wn]

wtf kind of 'correction' was that???

dumbazz

[roidroid]

NO U

[dudejesus]

I was wondering what he difference was. Sounds like you know what your talking about. Are you for Biofuels from algae?

[roidroid]

yeah Biofuels from algae seems like a good idea.

[dudejesus]

To what extent?

[2004JETTA]

lol @ the jurrasic park music at the beginning good vid tho spread the word

[Leibensborn]

very good summary

[Westonci]

spread the word

[dawance88]

Very nice video.