Next Big Bio-Fuel - ALGAE

[gunjar13]

really awesome



[platinum243125]

This is being implemented already for shipping and the navy, can't wait to have it in gas station and planes!

[mphello]

The oil companies are smart, not dumb (well, smart in the extremely NARROW sense of the word: just immediate self-preservation). They would never kill, since they don't have to, already having tons of political power. That would be the dumb thing for them to do: get caught committing murder or terrorism.

They would BUY him out.

[mphello]

@mphello

But even THAT won't happen (they won't buy him out), because the oil companies are dying as oil runs out.

i.e. they won't buy him out so as not to produce and market the algae-technology.

They may buy him out, because they already have the capital, but they will mass market the algae tech on that pre-existing infrastructure. And, THAT would be a GOOD thing for all of us.

[mphello]

Algae-power, UNITE!

[firehawk97]

Here it is. The possible solution to our oil shortage.

Properly set up with large enough plants, you could harness this and purify it... distribute it in large enough quantities to meet the demands of crude oil.

Sad though, you never hear about this. Why isn't the government looking at this and stepping in? They should support him.

It's a shame OPEC and the oil companies have our governments by the balls.

It's always about now, about immediate profit.

I wish we weren't powerless.

[evilspiritchild]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions whether electric , hydrogen or bio-fuels but what difference is it going to make when in another 50 years the population of the world is going to double and we've cut down our last tree and depleted all our fish stock from the ocean.Wake up world none of this is feasible until we get our population under control..

[nikeluis662]

so black really is the new gold :]

[mphello]

Some paranoid lunatics with their wackjob conspiracy theory involving imaginary hippies FAIL at making their case against algae.

The high-technology engineers and scientists who make solar panels and biofuels and nanotech would have gotten a lot farther, but they were forced out of their work by the anti-marxist nutjobs.

Like that anti-Marxist Norwegian guy who murdered all those people with that bomb a few months back.

[gteea]

So it is just psuedomonas. 

[rawdonut]

@gteea ; Pseudomonas is a genus of gammaproteobacteria, belonging to the family Pseudomonadaceae, but I am not sure what is grown. They are calling it micro-algae. Leaving a broad spectrum of possibilities.

[bigbillyz]

The oil companys will buy him out not kill him

[dobredanielstelian]

i don't think this method is the answer, because we will run out of water ... if this become mass produced, regenerable energy is the answer.

[fuggernugget]

@dobredanielstelian not true it uses waste water or salt water and considering that oil dose not cover 70% of earth but water does, its a grate alternative for now seeing how u can make every thing from gasoline to plastic and every thing between!

[40joel]

@dobredanielstelian run out of water? The water does not just disappear, it is released when you burn it. That's like saying don't plant more trees because they use water

[AndrewDeLong]

@dobredanielstelian 73% of the planet's surface is water, and that's merely the surface. In terms of depth, that water can be anywhere from a few feet to several hundred feet, to several miles. There is simply no way we could run out of water by utilizing this Algae. Further, in the oil production process, that water is re-released into the environment.

In short, no, we won't run out of water, and this is a wholly regenerative source of fuel.

[Jbinkley79]

This technology would literally save the world, it's being held back by the global elite. Research the NWO!!!!

[matmicmj]

FREE BOOK SEE CHANNEL , PEACE

[ghosthoundstv]

The beauty of algae is that its actually a THREE stage energy platform (A) squeeze the petroleum out of it in the first stage (B) ferment the petroleum byproduct for ethanol and (C) burn the ethanol byproduct for heat. Whats left over after you burn it is valuable as fertilizer. They say a 50 mile by 50 mile area of desert in the south west USA might produce enough energy for the entire country. So LETS GET ON IT - ***NOW***!!!

[heartlessvietboy]

The question is when surrounded in plastics how come bacteria grows so fast??

[tnguyen318]

Total Oil used in the United States a year is Bio-fuel in Land the Size of the State of Mississippi.

[tony5w]

by now we should be mass producing it ! what is the hell is going on?

[DailySexFl]

Why are They Not Going Full Tilt On This (a Salt Water Version) in Japan Right Now ????

[DailySexFl]

I have been there.....

Why after 3-4 years is This Still in an Elementary Stage ???

[zeroxero111]

petrol is $2.18 per L now

[sapher2020]

I wonder if Odumbass knows about this? If he does though I bet he doesn't even care that Arab oil has this country by the balls!!

[XxHolyPoptartxX]

The oil companies will buy him out or kill him before he goes public

[rawdonut]

@XxHolyPoptartxX:  Most Likely!

[adamsathome]

@rawdonut Such a shame too, it's all about GREED!!!!

[ababi44]

@XxHolyPoptartxX The oil companies should switch their investments to this type of technology. This will be win-win solution.

[Armornone]

@XxHolyPoptartxX No they don't, Oil companies don't care. Most of the green technology is an absolute scam or recycled failed technology from the 70's such as the failed solar panels.

I believe in real proof and solution not hyped and talk from hippies.

[ghosthoundstv]

@Armornone This isn't hype. This is viable AND renewable, and people are doing it. It just takes the investment to create the infrastructure to make it happen. Why hasn't it been rolled out yet? Well why would oil companies spend money they don't have to when they can just keep pumping it out of the ground? They are perfectly content to keep things as they are until they HAVE to change.

[Armornone]

@ghosthoundstv Oh, so you are expecting the oil companies to do this technology? If they believe it would work, they would do it like crazy. If it actually worked, then investors could do it and make billions. If solar panels worked, then power companies would buy vast areas of desert waste land and build massive solar panels but they don't. That is why stupid people buy solar panels not energy companies or investors. You can get rich by selling them, not buying them.does not work.

[AndrewDeLong]

@Armornone Actually....you're wrong. Exxon-Mobile has invested MASSIVE sums of money into this very research. Exxon-Mobile...I believe that qualifies as a large oil company, no? Hmmm....

[Armornone]

@AndrewDeLong Are you Spanish? You are answer your own question with a " NO", I guess you are not sure of yourself. Sometimes companies will throw a few dollars to some liberal project to keep the positions and hippies happy but they are not serious about it. Keep dreaming buddy.

[AndrewDeLong]

@Armornone I was answering with a "no" as in the non-negative form. Not "no" as in the negative, menaing "no they are not." Try to keep up.

As for a company putting funds into R&D....don't be stupid. A company won't put money into something unless it has a potential to make money back. And seeing as they have barely advertised this project, it's highly unlikely that they're doing it for P.R reasons.

Honestly, apply some logic to your comments...it does wonders.

[AndrewDeLong]

Cont:

Also, take into consideration that the US gov't has mandated that a certain amount of ethanol be put into the gasoline supply, and that amount is slated to be increased in the next few years. Also consider that there will be a proposed Corn shortage in that same timeframe, and the viability of Algae to out porduce corn in the bio-fuel market. Corn yields about 300gallons per acre/per year. Algae yields closer to 5000 gallons/acre/year It's just more feesible to go with Algae.

[Armornone]

@AndrewDeLong What are you talking about. There are literally hundred of millions of dollars put into feel good PR projects that have no return whatsoever.

Just look at all the companies that gave money to ACORN!!!

LOL, you need to wake up and get with the program.

[AndrewDeLong]

@Armornone Yes, because we can compare ACORN to Algae....please, tell me how these two things are comparible IN THE LEAST.

Better yet, tell me why Algae IS NOT a feesible idea. I'd honestly love to hear your argument agains Exxon-Mobile on that one.

[Armornone]

@AndrewDeLong First things first, you said " A company won't put money into something unless it has a potential to make money back" I responded that companies gives millions to ACORN for a PR stunt. How does giving money to ACORN make them money unless they are setting up an underage prostitution ring with illegal alien children. Secondly, do you remember how Ethanol was suppose to save the world from gasoline? It was the biggest flop in history. Solar panels from the 1970's another PR flop.

[AndrewDeLong]

@Armornone Ya DO realize that PR is still a way for companies to make money, right? Like I said, companies do money making things.

As for Algae, it is, in fact, a federal guide line that a certain amount of ethanol be put in the gasoline supply now. Algae is a rather CHEAP solution to this, as it yields up to 10-15 TIMES the amount of fuel, per acre per year than corn does, with a manufacturing process that costs rougly the same as corn.

Tell me, how is that NOT feesible? I mean really.....

[Armornone]

@AndrewDeLong Explain to me how giving money to ACORN is making a company money? Is the company in question running a prostitution ring or something? So someone is going to say, hey CISCO gave money to ACORN, better buy one of their routers? Its more like keeping OBAMA happy with them. Ethanol is a disaster and will break your engine. It pulls in water from the atmosphere which is like throwing a piece of steal in your engine's pistons. Total garbage liberal agenda, not real science.

[AndrewDeLong]

@Armornone Yes, ethanol IS bad for engines that aren't built for it. But that is not the topic here. We are not here to discuss the logistics of ethanol mandates, but the implemented use of it as an actuality. Which it is. In this case, you have to ask, what is the most viable, cost effective way to produce it, as well as a disel substitute? That remains, to date, to be Algae. So again, tell me how it is NOT FISCALLY SOUND for a large comapny (such as Exxon-Mobile) to do so...stay on topic

[Armornone]

@AndrewDeLong You can have the government mandate that you run cars on water, it does not mean its going to work. Solar panels don't work either, that is why they have completely abandoned power companies and trying to tell them to hippies to put on their house. The economics and science do not support a viable solution. We need nuclear power plants, and alternatives to manufacturing materials without the use of oil. Electric cars, solar panels, and ethanol are all lost causes. Wake up buddy!

[AndrewDeLong]

@Armornone I agree that Solar is far too expensive to be feesible, but electric cars have come a long way in a short time. Nuclear is a viable option, yes, but it's also troublesome. I live near Vermont, where they run the Vt. Yankee Nuclear power plant....a place that has had multiple leaks in the past few years alone. Ethanol is only bad for non-specified engines, and actually DOES WORK in engines built for it.

But again, you're off base. Given the mandates, how is algae not fessible?

[Armornone]

@AndrewDeLong Throw those mandates out with Obama. Do you know that you use to have to put a stamp on packages sent with Fedex by Government mandate? There is no reason for these rule, the free market will decide what is best not government. The hippies are actually creating an unsafe environment for nuclear power plants because they refuse to let people build modern power plants which are safe so they keep old obsolete power plants that have major flaws. They need to be shut down and replaced.

[AndrewDeLong]

@Armornone Again, I'm not here to argue mandate logisitcs. We can change them down the road. The argument here is whether or not, GIVEN CURRENT MANDATES, what is a feesible way to make ethanol (also, Algae makes desiel too, which is a viable fuel, mandates or not). Algae is such a feesible way. It's low maintainence, yeilds high levels of product, and is not energy intensive in terms of how much it takes to produce fuel.

Again, please tell me how its not feesible? And...STAY ON TOPIC.

[Chlamy50]

@AndrewDeLong

Hum, Algae production is actually energy intensive, especially mixing and gas transfer into the culture (something like 20KWh/m2/year)...for a low energetic output (like 40KWh of biomass/year, al little bit more than half of that being oil) equals to an efficiency of photosynthesis of 2% over the year (for a mean photon flux density of 2000KWh/m2)....so it means the cost of algae oil will be too important..

[VERGIS92]

@XxHolyPoptartxX No, Exxon Mobil is the biggest Algae investor, they have a $600m project underway.

[askaboutRudyV]

@XxHolyPoptartxX Yep, that's most likely what will happen. If they don't kill him, as you said they will buy him out by threatening him and stuff. Hope he succeeds in helping to make our planet a better place, and I hope Marijuana gets legalized in 2012 and all those evil corporations go out of business, hahaha, that would be awesome. Peace.

[uhIforgot1]

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[heartlessvietboy]

Gasoline is from Algae and Corn. The future will be great.

[kuhnmoving]

Can the oil be used just like waste vegetable oil? Heat the oil, then run it right through the engine as an alternative to diesel?

[A4moondoggy]

ALGAE KILLERS! your all going to hell

[datzfast]

the answer is no, an oil company can get oil up for 3 dollars a barrel can you get 55 gallons of algae oil for 3 bucks i dont think so.

[FaaS85]

What if this thing fell into our water?

[NitroxideHS]

@FaaS85 nothing algea is produced by nature its just grass that has been lying in water for a while.

[donsjuand]

@FaaS85 That answer could be provided through a chemist who produces the oil telling a biologist what's in it - the biologist would then have the information to conclude the effects. Algae would be FAR better in our oceans than petroleum though - it's organic vs chemical... and in nature chemical = long-lasting devastating health effects, whereas excess algae = temporary natural unbalance. I know algae consumes co2 and feeds tiny invertebrates that in turn feed fish...

[vr4ish]

can someone help me contact this guy i want to ask questions on where dose he learn about this stuff

[heartlessvietboy]

Algae is one of the cleanest forms of fuel out there.

[hihosh1]

THe only problem is growing algae in the way he's doing it causes a carbon footprint 3.7 times greater than current fuels because of the energy required to create it. Of course if he used solar power or wind power to generate the required energy then that's another story.

[AJWhyBNice]

@hihosh1 I like how you just made up a number. 3.7x makes it sound more plausible then say.. 4, 5 or even 3. I would love to see how you came up with that number as he is using waste carbon to feed the device(and it outputs oxygen). Only man made energy input would be for processing the end product which would be similar to processing traditional fuels. Most of the energy going into this product would be sunlight which is carbon footprint free one would think.

[hihosh1]

@AJWhyBNice oh please, I used a number which I looked up at site speaking about the amount that would be created using that set up, and judging from your name I see you are one of those people who just wants to find reasons to be nasty. Maybe before you slam what I'm saying you should google carbon footprint algae 3.7 and see what I mean, this footprint only occurs if methods like Solar, wave or wind energy is not used in production. First engage brain before engaging fingers!!

[AJWhyBNice]

All websites based on report that states:

"The GWP and fossil-energy requirement in this operation were found to be particularly sensitive to (i) the yield of oil achieved during cultivation, (ii) the velocity of circulation of the algae in the cultivation facility, (iii) whether the culture media could be recycled or not, and (iv) the concentration of carbon dioxide in the flue gas."

Sensitive = great variance in numbers when testing. Only considers open system.

Char limit as a bitch.

[AJWhyBNice]

Also the report states that the data is relevant to the UK. UK has lower solar energy density then Florida where this video was made. More energy density in this system = less pumping as per the report. There are also reports from the same University of minor changes to the system producing great improvements over the efficiency of their test rig using only 4% of the energy shown in that report. (Using low velocity baffle pumping)

Sorry for being an arse. @hihosh1

[hihosh1]

@AJWhyBNice apology accepted.

[karenl1234]

great tech we should share with all our politicians! create grants for! in my town most electricity produced with diesel generators and coal!

[fedtheend]

that's a great idea. they could grow it in the gulf!

[saywhatfo]

This is a wonderful planet saving technology. However, the power elite will never let it see the light of day as far as mass production. There have been may technologies to reduce oil consumption like a fuel injection system built in the 70's that made those huge 400 blocks give 50-70 mpg. The technology gets bought out then stored away, or someone ends up dead. The industrial complex would sooner bring about Armageddon then let this take over their profits.

[gteea]

Algae is the by-product of bacterial growth - the green slime you see on cut flowers in water or fish tanks is psuedomonas bacteria - google it and you'll see how powerful the little critter is.

[Tezcatlipoca1984]

oh my, this is so exiting!!!!!! I have a lot of faith in the future, this technology will help clean the planet while keeping us on the road at the same time, and I read that plastics can also be made from these algae oil, I think that in a not too far future cars will be hybrids using algae fuel and electric generators, hydrogen seems to be quite too expensive to obtain and difficult to handle to be cheap enough to be commercially viable, this technology is wondrous!!!!!!!

[supperstorm]

where they get their CO2? the air CO2 is it enough for large production?

[DonPohlino]

@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! 

[jeffsandychelsea]

"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.

[haramacad]

wow awesome

[davedavedaveannoy1]

Disgustingly green gold

[maldivszigetek]

szuper........ dr.Rémay László algamen

[mrhardone]

cool stuff. Gas is going up to day

[2sillytube]

National Geographic- polar algae forests,sea of antarctica.Carbon dioxide,seemingly there's alot of that naturally,like dry ice

[Revgirl5]

Very cool video....

[AdeptSix]

Algae are protists, not plants. They feed on carbon which can be found in the air or in water. This is a great concept for bio-fuel as it takes much less real estate, has a significant yield, and has very little turn around. Unfortunately, I don't suspect we'll be purchasing algae power of any variety any time soon.

[fhumnagads]

and also unlike corn, algae doesn't effect global fuel supply and has an epic growth rate

[vtdom1]

INVEST IN ORIGIN OIL!!!!!!

[1dgg9h4dr6ppp8]

The answer is obviously no, or it would already be being used, although the future could change that.

[r8wing]

I think this is the next Holy Grail of energy for transportation. Not only they can provide an abondant, sustainable fuel source with zero carbon footprint, but also an economic opportunity for poor countries with little other resources apart from sun and hot weather all year round. And by using salt water algae one can avoid putting a strain on fresh water supplies. I'm looking forward to the future.

[datzfast]

all the water is reused. like a fish tank so its not an issue

[r8wing]

If water is reused over and over again doesn't it get depleted of nutrients and saturated with toxins? Even in a fish tank you have to change the water from time to time.

[datzfast]

toxins, havent you heard, algae are used in water treatment to detoxify water. make vitamines, the lipids in its cell wall are the carbon found in the air, no sugar added.

i suppose on industrial scale you have to add the dead lipidless algae bodies back to recover the magnesium, chlorine and other trace elements but if your using co2 from a scrubber on a powerplant they are in the gasses, the came from the algae the first time the oil was make by the planet we inhabit.

[fhumnagads]

Water doesn't have nutrients

[r8wing]

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.

[criticallistenphile]

@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.

[fmbchris]

@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.

[AndrewDeLong]

@criticallistenphile

Actually, the nutrients would come from the chlorine, which when used in city water, isn't pure, but diluted with other substances, carbon being among them. Also, those clear tubes might be plastic, which is HEAVILY carbon based. Not to mention the way you describe it, you would have to have transferred the water to your system which could allow for any contaminants to enter the system. If algae grew in your coolant system it was definitely not a completely closed system

[criticallistenphile]

@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.

[AndrewDeLong]

@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.

[criticallistenphile]

@AndrewDeLong This information comes from the University of Washington science department. A professor there is the brains behind a book recently published about the use of biomass in the production of hydrocarbons.  She spoke in one of my courses at length about how algae is the only plant that makes sense when all other plants are considered.

[criticallistenphile]

@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.

[AndrewDeLong]

@criticallistenphile

And while I'm no biologist (just a mere chemistry major, focus on explosives) I know the basics of algae. This is why I'm so interested in trying a home made version of the system myself, with some naturally occurring algae. I know it won't be as effective as lab produced algae, but hell, I still want to see what happens.

[AndrewDeLong]

@fhumnagads

Pure Deionized water has no nutrients. But naturally occurring water does have minerals in it. Also, the CO2 as well as the water itself acts as nutrients for the algae.

[justanothersheeple]

@r8wing no you throw dog food or something in there for protein it eats it

[walter0bz]

algae->electricity - how does this compare to PV cells.

[707006]

NICE

THNX

IT WAS INTRESTING

[JonnyTommyGuns]

If you think about it oil is just a bunch of dead plants from thousands of years ago. So why not make our own in a factory.

[datzfast]

actually its from algae not plants, coal is from plants

[JonnyTommyGuns]

Algae is a plant...

[OghamTheBold]

Hope algae don't start driving tiny underwater cars with their new oil wealth

[70CentsaGallon]

May be we all have to do what this guy did and start making our own algae, them maybe the government and big business with catch on. take a look at the Make Algae Biodiesel at Home (Book Preview Tour) both are really algae cool!

[ARCHERPAPA]

like it! Like it!

Allot!

[WanSzeOnn]

The return of SWAMP MEN O.o

[sorsa1249]

wow. that would be so great! O.O w00! go nasty green stuff!

[rlake76]

Bryan Garner is a butt pirate.

[hypnofan35]

if anyone who had access to sunlight and some water could produces an essential or necessary amount of fuel, while cleaning the environment. It seems like it could stabilize and serve civilizations. We need this to work really badly, i would say.

[MasterChief22530]

oooo wow, what have we here? aa , with this....we don't need to fight oil wars anymore eh?

[MysteryManoLove]

Boy I wish that were true, unfortunately with every ecologically friendly fuel source, there are plenty of inherint problems. Solar doesn't produce a whole lot of electricity for the current consumption and uses alot of land, wind has the same problems . Oil is very dense with energy potential, it makes several products, not just gasoline. You have jet fuel, asphalt, motor oil, which are just the few examples, how do you replace that with plants? Again, alot of resources (money) even if you can.

[Posternal]

Lets build Bioreactors in order to get Algae.

[hypnofan35]

Methane is the first fuel, and the cleanest fuel by far. Can you make methane? You can store methane in depleted formations, and it can be used to produce electricity next to your house, while saving the heat, while giving off co2 rich air and pure water. Methane is the future and would be better than gold for underwriting money because everybody can make it and it is not for war.

[Sillybillydilly]

You can store oil in a can, or pit you dig in the ground. Can you do that with methane, in high energy density, without extreme compression?

[hypnofan35]

I am pretty sure it generates fairly fast in a digester, so it can be stored most likely after drying. In a gas well it keeps coming until the pressure gets fairly low. If it comes out, it can go back in. It is oftentimes sandstone, sometimes porous limstone. If you can get it to a very high pressure you can probably get a good deal CH4 to go back down a hole unless the formation collapes somehow. I have seen a vid with high pressure (3K psi) called CNG. Takes a carbon fiber tank presently.

[pnisvgina]

I just save my farts in a bottle and use it later for heating my house.

[KelferMookie]

whats next? Using oreos to fuel cars?

DRILL DRILL DRILL Mother Fuckers!!!!

[MysteryManoLove]

Nuclear power too man, the most efficient form of energy to date.

[geoffrider]

so....your just turning the coal or natural gas plants into solar power plants?? um yeah, why not just skip the middle man and not have all the toxins that are created when stuff is burned.

[roidroid]

exactly geoffrider.

this company's plan to feed the biofuel back into the coal plants is very very strange, almost idiotic.

if they're gonna do that - it would be many factors more efficient to just soak up that sunlight with solar cells instead.

the only reason to use algae is to create highly portable and handy liquid fuels for cars etc, OR grow it to sequester CO2. This guy's plan does none of this - i have no idea why. It's madness.

[WanSzeOnn]

yeah he plans to use it to power plants which feeds co2 to the algae ...

[chadd2748]

Great video,..I just wish we could get more

detail (ie,..type of algea,process,ect,.ect).

This would help 3rd world countries in a no#

of ways. Creating animal feed,fuels for power

and a list of other applications!! Great work!

[icantafford]

it probably takes more energy to convert the algae than you get from the end (I am on a PC without sound so dont send me more hate mail!)

[roidroid]

not at all. Algae is the most efficient plant there is.

[JustMyNipples]

great!

what about making alcohol with fermented algae? does that factor in at all?

[awol09]

after you take the oil out of the biomass, you can ferment the byproduct (it contains carbs and simple sugars). so yes

[creten69]

03 $25 a barrel 08 $140 a barrel today $70 its the biggest wtf i have ever seen in my fukn country,i wanna shove it so far up oil companies asses more than anything in the world.Lets grow our own food,make our own clothes,fuk bb fuk our fukd up gov,Its all the fuk wrong and only we can make it right.

[chinable]

algae is the shit

[riseshawn]

I love it!! The age of fear that there is not enough to go around is comming to and end. We the people will break free of this stupid gasoline slavery.

[christiandake]

Wrong That age has just begun. We will need to down cycle energy usage if we are to continue. We need to farm the Carbon back into organic humic soils and forests. Don't count on a technology like this to save the world. Stay postive though.

[r4nd0mn4me]

After all that work, it still all comes down to cost eh? You pay the small price at the pump now for dino-fuels but many others have paid the price for that oil with their land, their future,and their lives. Algae oil just passes all that cost on to you. You can sleep easy at night knowing that no one had to die to bring you your gas. That CO2 was removed from the air to make it grow,and it was made in your country by your fellow citizens. How many of our troops died to bring you your oil today?

[donsjuand]

@r4nd0mn4me Amen man - there are many costs of using dirty fossil fuels (these costs are unjustly distributed as well). Globally, billions of gallons of chemical petroleum compounds have been infused into our food webs, petroleum is the #1 cause of climate change we affect. Oil companies owe a HUGE debt to society and we owe it to ourselves and others to vie for truly clean sourced, renewable algae bio-fuels that don't compete for aggri land and can use existing infrastructure. Inform!!!

[mphello]

@r4nd0mn4me The anti-hippy anti-Marxist nutjobs are mentally inferior to real humans. They cannot be persuaded by powerful logical arguments such as this one.

The selfish anti-hippy anti-Marxists demand that the costs of their selfish greedy lifestyles always be forced onto somebody else. They don't want to take responsibility for their own actions. Typical.

[corduroy99]

does anybody knows were to get the algae seed? im gonna do this

[rawdonut]

The algae news video was so interesting that I had to post it. But as far as what kind of algae. Don't know. The guy on the video got it from a university. But it will never make it to the public. The big oil companies will see to that. You could probably call him there in Fellsmere Florida. Hopefully he can point you in the right direction. It sounds like a simply enough proccess. Beats hydrogen. Got it hooked up but haven't been able to beat the O2 sensor as of yet. GOOD LUCK!

[vain911]

@rawdonut Well shouldn't gas be cheaper but were going to have to buy new cars.

[ericsyutubeaccount]

@rawdonut im working with a team of grad school students and professors on a more effecient method of producing and extracting a higher percent yield of lipids from microalgae in a shorter amount of time in order to make algae a more viable source of energy, i cant say what school or what exactly wer doing but we are on the verge of a method that will produce a high yield in a quarter of the time it would normally take, just letting yall know there is hope for the future!

[VerbalizedPhrases]

@ericsyutubeaccount You are informed, are you not? I am going to produce a presentation for my class and maybe the entire school, about this very topic. I got across it reading some journal about sciences and I like the enthusiasm invested into this opportunity.

But I am having a hard time getting further information on technical stuff, because I don't see whether the focus is on earning oil, or hydrogen?

Wish you all best for finding economical ways for the production! =)

[SilentEagles]

@rawdonut

Why are they tooking so long to produce Algae biofuel, Algae biodiesel, and other Algae. We got stopping using oil.

[mikehanoo33]

@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 .

[tigersire]

@corduroy99 Uhhh.. have you ever owned a swimming pool?

[oiemailme]

@corduroy99 urm...algea doesn't grow from seed. its a micro-organism.

[oiemailme]

@corduroy99 urm...algea doesn't grow from seed. its a micro-organism. you can get algea samples off the internet or just bottle some pond water and leave it in the sun and it'll start to grow like crazy.

[cokie58]

Screw solar, wind, ethanol, and hydrogen(which is a fuel, not an energy source). Bio oil holds far greater promise. Best of all, it feeds directly into the existing transportation infrastructure. Check out the work being done by LS9 for a glimpse of the future.

[mphello]

@cokie58 We still need portable fuels, even though they are not an original energy source (which always has to be the sun). If not H2, then something else.

We also need oil as a feedstock, not just a fuel. That's why that Japanese inventor who turns trash into oil needs billions of dollars investment. It doesn't create more energy. It just makes material that we need. It still has to be solar or wind powered.

[azrios]

Greed! He's lookn' for the big money.

We(I am) going to figure out how to make it in my backyard. Majority of people will figure out this simple process. Limpods is what we can burn in our diesel engines.

[corduroy99]

absolutely if you got a good size backyad I think is doable

[creten69]

so you just grow limpods and pour it into a diesal engine?I thougth iraq was about oil,its not is it?Its just corporate greed?thats horrendesouly sad if true.That would make all responsible war criminals.wow

[panamic855]

i bet they payed him good to keep it from us

[roidroid]

i think you mean "lipids", which in this context is another way of saying vegetable oil.