AlgaeLink® Photo-Bioreactors

AlgaeLink is the manufacturer of algae photobioreactors and open raceway ponds for algae production

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Science & Technology

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• Algae
• micro
• Photobioreactor
• photo-bioreactor
• pond
• raceway
• Biodiesel
• environment
• Oil
• Algaelink

[SacrificialMullet]

No. You didn't say the process leaks CO2. You said it leaks "all of it's CO2".

You also state it uses huge quantities of water again not true. Most of the water can be recycled in a closed loop system.

[Cbizzl]

What do you propose for an energy source. Expecting the world to stop using energy is like the proverbial "pot O gold". Think of it this way. The plants grown to make bio use CO2, when they are burned that same CO2 is put back into the atmosphere, basically recycling the CO2. Fossil fuel on the other hand produces excess CO2, there isn't an equilibrium. Not ALL biofuels are totally neutral in CO2 output, but most are far less then fossil fuels.

[bansalvsquare]

Phycotech’s mission is to provide its customers with leading edge photo bioreactor technology.

[enticed2zeitgeist]

@supperstorm I've heard you can use co2 that's freely available in the air. It's currently sitting at around 350 ppm if I'm not mistaken. It might be higher or lower actually. Big algae farms appear to be attached to some kind of coal power plant that dumps tons of co2 into the air normally, but instead grows algae at extreme speeds. I have read and seen on youtube that algae can be fully matured from seed to harvest in as little as 3 days.

[De4sher]

@fakiir yup, smart remark

[De4sher]

this language is just awful

[fakiir]

@Spastb00n fossil fuels will never run out, its not possible to find and extract every last drop of oil or chunk of coal. however, within the next 50-100 years the cost of extraction will slowly rise to match the slowly falling prices of alternatives. when that happens, and ONLY when that happens, will we be able to get off of fossil and use the new stuff.

[TheiRenaissance]

For those unacquainted with the facts the single and only fact keeping algae generated biodiesel from being the main and probably your personal source of fuel oil, to include transportation of course, is the fact that oil prices are still so incredibly low. for how much energy we get per gallon of gas its practically free, when viewed through reality glasses where its obvious that oil and coal are stored concentrated sunlight and when that runs out we will be back to ONLY current period energy

[supperstorm]

where they get their CO2?

[Spastb00n]

Fortunately it can occupy wasteland. There is no need for fertile soil or similar.

And actually this would most likely be our only real alternative energy source, seeing how hydrogen is still no mature technology.

Fossil fuels are bound to run out not too far in the future, so something has to be the next big thing after that.

[datzfast]

i think i can produce 200 ml of blood each day. and you can only guess at how much oil a day is produced. also the idea is to grow algae on the existing foot print of a coal power plant to remove the CO2 gasses.  all the Co2 gasses, not 200 ml

200 tones a day

[datzfast]

so, pumping oil from 3000 feet down, cracking it by boiling in not energy efficient?

algae oil is carbon neutral or is that concept to foreign to understand.