For once, I'm excited about something "green"...literally
For those wondering, algae fuel makes about 130,000 btu per gallon, same as common diesel fuel.
Exxon is scrambling to make this happen.
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Nice!!!!
Now only if something would be done about this kinda thing....
Now only if something would be done about this kinda thing....
i fkn love this idea .....what r u going bio major now 
I read about this maybe about a year ago. How cool would it be to GROW our own fuel for cars?
That's really kool!!
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A friend has been working on a simular project for a couple of years now. He has been studying about 20 different types of algae to see which one reproduces the fastest. He has narrowed it down to one species, and is now developing a way to quickly refine it. Alot of money has been spent on this research and you'd be surprised who's funding it.
i saw where algea is like 1000 times more efficient at getting oil from than CORN
You mean that the algae in diesel wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing?
QUOTE (Geo in a K5 @ Nov 19 2009, 08:54 PM) 
i fkn love this idea .....what r u going bio major now
No, gonna fetch an MBA from a top 5 school in a while though.
Perhaps I can go into energy markets later in life
Just need to make sure I don't let the CFO go apechit
A couple years ago I delivered a machine that my wifes company designed and made to ASU for this specific thing, I got the full tour of the lab and it was pretty cool. Behind the building that all the scientists were working in where HUGE panels that they grew alge in, Phoenix is probably one of the best places to grow it. They had the machine for a few weeks then I went back to pick it up, not sure what ever became of them teaming up, but it was a cool experience.
I would bet the oil companies are all over this. When they let gasoline get up to $5 a gallon last year, the electric vehicle market really started to take off. Electric vehicles are very close to becoming viable transportation now and prices are drastically coming down. The oil companies shot themselves in the foot.
QUOTE (Fireballsocal @ Nov 20 2009, 07:41 AM)
I would bet the oil companies are all over this. When they let gasoline get up to $5 a gallon last year, the electric vehicle market really started to take off. Electric vehicles are very close to becoming viable transportation now and prices are drastically coming down. The oil companies shot themselves in the foot.
I was thinking the same thing at the time, about how many advancements we were gonna make in the electric industry and the battery industry since the market was screaming for alternatives, and the battery industry applies to more than just cars, so we may see the advancements in other stuff like tools and solar storage from it before too long.
People are always knocking change, and were p*ssed about high prices and government intervention in vehicles and products, but we make so many advancements when people are really p*ssed off and that's where the real change comes in and it always works out for the best. We've gone from big records to small chips that can hold thousands of songs, high gas prices to cheaper alternatives, and all the CARB epa stuff that people bitch about will bring about better vehicles that will end up costing less to operate in the long run. Cars these days are more powerful and more efficient than cars of yesteryear and don't produce as bad emissions, which means more fun, cheaper cost, and we don't have to breath air like in china, so the good will come, it's just too slow for most impatient people. Advancements are pretty much always better and the cost go down for people to own and use....
I effin love this idea, they finally figured out how to cost effectively produce fuel from water......
QUOTE (yoshi @ Nov 20 2009, 07:57 AM)
QUOTE (Fireballsocal @ Nov 20 2009, 07:41 AM)
I would bet the oil companies are all over this. When they let gasoline get up to $5 a gallon last year, the electric vehicle market really started to take off. Electric vehicles are very close to becoming viable transportation now and prices are drastically coming down. The oil companies shot themselves in the foot.
I was thinking the same thing at the time, about how many advancements we were gonna make in the electric industry and the battery industry since the market was screaming for alternatives, and the battery industry applies to more than just cars, so we may see the advancements in other stuff like tools and solar storage from it before too long.
People are always knocking change, and were p*ssed about high prices and government intervention in vehicles and products, but we make so many advancements when people are really p*ssed off and that's where the real change comes in and it always works out for the best. We've gone from big records to small chips that can hold thousands of songs, high gas prices to cheaper alternatives, and all the CARB epa stuff that people bitch about will bring about better vehicles that will end up costing less to operate in the long run. Cars these days are more powerful and more efficient than cars of yesteryear and don't produce as bad emissions, which means more fun, cheaper cost, and we don't have to breath air like in china, so the good will come, it's just too slow for most impatient people. Advancements are pretty much always better and the cost go down for people to own and use....
I effin love this idea, they finally figured out how to cost effectively produce fuel from water......
Markets will work it all out on their own.
Market place politics will manage far more in a far more efficient manner than government.
Gubment didn't mandate this, the people did.
http://green.autoblog.com/2008/04/09/all-n...95-recoverable/
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