Algae Oil Extraction

[datzfast]

you probabaly use a dildo battery. dont forget to recycle

[TheDavidchild]

He doesnt know what hes talking about calling this oil. Chem/phys procesing is required. Some Algae are indeed high in oil and protein. BUT Producing fuel in meaningful quantities is BOGUS, I dont care if Dupont or Dow is doing it. They are only collecting huge Govt subsidies to set up pilot plants with our money for PR. The only realistic application is dried animal feed additive.

[Troy92010]

This isn't oil. It's a slimy exudate composed of polysaccharides, primarily fucoidan and algin. Energy for the microbes that will decompose it in a few days.

[addett30]

Stupid

[sspeed30043]

How does 100,000 gallons of algae oil

from one acre per year!!!!

Up to 500 times the output per acre of any other source.

[kenfla2]

ok. i've done some research on this subject and found that the only real fuel we can make is deisel. Well i don't have a deisel car. Now algae sounds promising for gas but are we there yet? Ethanol is a loosy fuel source, it takes forever to go, but it is there to help us to get off of foreign fuel. Has anybody made any gas from Algae or are you just making oil or deisel from this stuff.

[theewz]

Keep reasearching cause jet fuel, ethanol, diesel and nutricuticals can be made from algae.

[kenfla2]

Show me! All i hear is that it "CAN" be used as to make other fuels. But you know we can get as much energy out of water. And if you ask me, i think we shoulf focus our atention on Hydrogen. We already have the know how to use it in fuel cells. But then again, i could be wrong.

[ABCarlough]

first off hydrogen is not a source of free energy it is viable option for storing electrical or chemical energy that we have to produce some how. the exciting thing about algae is it is a sourse of directly stored soler energy in the form of complex cabon chains wich burn and release there energy in exactly the same way fosle fules do. dont make the mistake of thinking that hydrogen can solve our problems we still have to generate the energy some where in order to store it with in hydrogen.

[kenfla2]

@ABCarlough I agree, hydrogen is not an energy source. I do beleive however that it would be geat for our transportion our anything the requires a battery. There is enougy free energy et solar, wind or whatever to produce it. And we have the technology to produce fuel cell cars. There on the road now. Algae is promising but the only thing i see coming out of it is deisel, i could be wrong. I hope i am but time will tell.

[deafencryption]

@ABCarlough thank you for being intelligent, we could use any oil producing plant right? not just algae

[theewz]

well, I,m not goin to do your research but look at boeing and algae. Do some research on what kinds of strains are high (60%) in starch, specificlily for gas engines.

Look into sperilia and its uses from algae.

check into who has done 130 octane

That should start you off .

[kenfla2]

Yea ok if it works it works. And god bless everyone working on it but lets be relistic for a sec. There are already fuel cell and air cars that both have the no pollution, and they are here now.

[theewz]

fuel cell?? your kidding right? you show me a 747 that can make a transatlantic flight on fuel cells at 1% better efficiency then traditional fuel show me one that can get off the ground with a full passenger load

If your referring to tesla your way off.

Incoidentlly thhe air car has been around since 1900's also was in trains

[kenfla2]

Who said anything about planes, but they do use hydrogen to put the shuttle into orbit. and why are you making lite on fuel cells, there are pilot cars out there that has a range of 300+ miles AND ITS HERE NOW!!! And since the air car been here since the 1900's you shouldn't have a problem with it. As i said before, why are we working on stuff the needs more time to mature when we already have an energy source that we can use to get off of foreign oil. So who is kidding who?

[theewz]

I said plane... thats why I posted it. fuel cells CANNOT POWER A PLANE hence they WILL NOT catch on. they are too expensive to produce compare to the power output. it has been proven year after year after decade.

[theewz]

You cannot power a plane with a battery for long haul.. you can with algae.

You cannot eat and get nourishment from a battery.. you can with algae.

You cannot sequestor CO2 with a battery.. you can with algae.

You canot produce multiple fuels with a battery.. yo can with algae.

you cannot use waste water to make a battery.. you can with algae

You think there is no pollution fr\om battery?? Did you just think that up?

do you have any idea what the process is to make a battery?

[kenfla2]

What?

Its not batery it is HYDROGEN.

Who the hell is going to eat algae?

There is enough plant life to sequestor the CO2.

Mulitple fuels? Yea right.

you can use waste water for HYDROGEN.

Pollution?? Hello, algea oil spill, everything in the area dies. With Hydrogen, if it spills, so, nothing dies, no messy clean up.

and all you need to make hydrogen is a solar panel or a windmill and some water.

[theewz]

I know its hydrogen..I dont care if its bubble gum, its a ttery period. Like I said in my first post to you, do some bloddy research or quit asking questions if you dont like the answers.

you realize batteries and there varients have been in production since 1834, yup they have come a long way in two centuries LOL

multiple fuels again do a little DD ethonal, diesal, jet fuel oh an ofcourse the 500 years of algae stored in the ground know as coal and oil.

[kenfla2]

will you please get off the batteries. Batteries take hours to recharge, then die and end up in landfills. Fuelcell needs a tank full of hydrogen and if it breaks a new membrane. I've built one! Its not theory,,it is here now, rolling on the highway in cars, in laptops, pdas and cell phone or will be soon. Algea, some say, is a decade away from being pratical as a fuel source. But you know if algae does come on top i be proven wrong and i will drive a car on it

[datzfast]

@kenflo 2 you are nuts. batteries never go to a land fill. your young and dumb and have never purchased a car battery. if you had you would know where old car batteries go. im just left speechless by your ignorance of what should be a life experance. good luck in life. you are going to need it some day.

[kenfla2]

@datzfast Out of all the stuff i said your going to call me dumb because of a car battery? OK, a car battery gets recycled, granted. Have you ever recycled a flashlight battery? Junked a laptop, a cell phone or a watch with the battery still in it? Personally, i don't give a shit, all i care about is getting off of fossal and foreign fuels. Is that so bad? You know, i don't even think i said car battery, retard!!

[kenfla2]

cont

Look if you have that much of a hard on for algea by all means go for it, But don't preach that this is the best way to go when there are more alternitives out there

[datzfast]

well, in defence of the lead acid battery, it is the only product on the market that has achieved a 100 percent recyclable product

a perfect score home run out of the ballpark record. real time, real life.

back to algae, mankind's best hope for a liquid fuel of the future. but really, how come no one is looking at synthetic bile acid extraction

[kenfla2]

did he say 30 pounds for 1 gallon of oil,,hell it only take 21 pounds of corn to make 1 gallon of ethanol and its ready to go into a car

[razorx71]

Do you know what it takes to make corn into ethanol tho? He just pressed it to get the oil, you don't squeeze corn and ethanol comes out. You have to shuck the corn, mill it into grain, then go through the distilling process which takes more energy than you get out. Plus diesel engines are much more efficient than gasoline engines, so in diesel you get compounded advantages, and in ethanol you get compounded losses.

[ubanclimber001]

and you have to use gas to make the ethanol and then it burns worse than gas...

[OutdoorsBlackMan]

How fast does corn grow...

[1ukjunglednbraver]

u could have a 50 algae havests buy the time it takes to get 1 corn harvest..so algae wins

[1ukjunglednbraver]

yes but corn takes i dont know how long to grow lets say 3 months..algae i do no how long takes 3-4 days even less for that now u are going to havest alot more algae in a year and get alot more oil

[ABCarlough]

hes not doing it right. prety sure he was jsut dumpong dirty whater into those bottles with a little residual oil you have to press it and after that you can chemicly proses it to gain a higher yield all in all i think he floped on this one

[tour86rocker]

What can you do with the oil in that state? Is it safe for diesel engines in that state or is another step required? What can be done with the leftover dry algae?

Good job letting the gravity do the work!

[1ukjunglednbraver]

u could distill it i think if it had dryed out..not sure tho

[guitarmasters33]

so can i use like a garlic press or do i need some kind of special equipment?i dont care about effency i want the cheapest way to do it...thanks in advance

[donatofuyung]

What in hells name is a garlic press?