Reply #8: I reckon it won't be long before they have to take algae a lot more seriously

[Turborama]

I mean the same "they" gateley was referring to, big money and corporations.

Grow mass amounts of algae and produce 20,000+ gallons of bio-fuel on one acre. With the amount of farm space of 1/10 the size of New Mexico we could produce enough fuel to fulfil the United States' need for oil.

Some facts and figures:

1 acre of corn = 18 gallons of oil per year

1 acre of palm = 7 to 800 gallons of oil per year

1 acre of open pond algae = 20,000 gallons of oil per year

1 acre of vertically grown algae = 100,000 gallons of oil per year

In search of sustainable fuel.

Tuesday, 24th June 2008
Source : Virgin Atlantic

Threatened by the latest rises in fuel costs - visionary airlines and a leading fuel technology innovator join forces.

Leading global air carriers Air New Zealand, Continental, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and biofuel technology developer UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, today announced they will be the first wave of aviation-related members to join the newly formed Algal Biomass Organization (ABO).

Together with Boeing, which co-chairs the ABO, the airlines are advocating for the identification and acceleration of new generations of fuel sources for the industry that have lower life cycle carbon emissions; in this case sustainable algae-based biofuels.

Full article: http://www.4hoteliers.com/4hots_nshw.php?mwi=4650

Algal Biomass Organization's website (quite a large list of big corporate sponsors there now): http://www.algalbiomass.org/

Science Channel's Ecopolis Looks At Valcent Algae Biofuel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsGFLXNVG1Q

Vertigro - Gas, Diesel, Biofuel production from algae (parts 2, 3 & 4 are on the right)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxNeBQCRv1c&feature=Play...

Air New Zealand - Jatropha Biofuel Test Flight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5g5Z3GTNwk

More details in posts I made...

here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4509092&mesg_id=4510016

here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=4501189

And here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=385&topic_id=242374