Biofuels from Algae Project - Brunswick Community College Center for Aquaculture & Biotechnology

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Brunswick Community College's (BCC) Center for Aquaculture and Biotechnology (CAB) has implemented a Biofuels from Algae project as a joint effort between the departments of Aquaculture and Biotechnology. This included the design and construction of an 1800 gallon photobioreactor system during phase 1 of the project. Phase II focused on the downstream processing of oil extraction. BCC's CAB has a patent pending status on this process, which is purely mechanical, easily scalable and relatively cheap to implement. The final phase of the project (pending funding) will optimize and refine the oil extraction process, which will give us the opportunity to file a full patent, license the patent to industry or develop a trade secret with an industry partner, which will quickly move the process to commercialization. If the final phase is funded we will also obtain data on the yield of oil production, yield to biodiesel conversion, chemical composition of the extracted oil and determine the best species for use in the process developed at BCC.

For more information, go online to http://brunswickcc.edu/ or http://ncbionetwork.org.

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[Aegis5461]

@55rebels you're fuckin retarded... all i hear is hemp hemp hemp.. i'm willing to bet you dont understand an iota of chemistry.. idk what it is about weed that makes everyone an activist

[Mcarman81]

to use such monotonous techniques is completely useless. Speed it up its algae not a deadly virus, good use of GLP but no GLP's needed.

[MrDutchjohn]

20,000 gallons per acre per year is hardly a little bit

[55rebels]

Seems like a whole lot of hassle, for just a little bit of oil.

I believe hemp would be more practical. Not only do you get oil from the hemp plant, but also textiles, food and medicine.

[enticed2zeitgeist]

@Ahlywog Tout Tesla all you want man! He was a true hero.

[Ahlywog]

@enticed2zeitgeist Agreed. I do know that Tesla patented a lot of his inventions and made those patents publicly available. Not meaning to tout Tesla but you get my point. Protecting the publicly availability of the information should be crucial IMHO.

[enticed2zeitgeist]

@Ahlywog I'm not 100% confident either. My understanding though is the information is released into the public domain before the knowledge is patented it is considered public property. Which means no one can really make copious amounts of money on it, which is good for the public which is what the world needs right now.

Greed is destroying the planet and this kind of system could liberate man kind from energy enslavement.

[Ahlywog]

@enticed2zeitgeist I honestly don't know how the whole patent process works. You might be right. Would you want to risk it though? I'm for any process that guarantees it's public availability.

[enticed2zeitgeist]

@Ahlywog They can also just declare it public knowledge can't they?

[Ahlywog]

@enticed2zeitgeist It depends on what they do with the patents. If they patent it then sit on the technology then I agree with you. If they patent it and make that patent publicly available then I'm all for it. Otherwise, without that patent, someone else could just patent it and sit on it like an oil company.