Re: OT - Biofuels, not so green

Posted by M Fanoni on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 19:16:32 :

In Reply to: OT - Biofuels, not so green posted by Joe Cimoch on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 18:27:04 :

A friend of mine here at Seattle University is working on an algae biofuel project that has huge potential. The main idea is to use large CO2 producing entities (factories, generators) to supply excess amounts of CO2 to the algae. The algae grow like crazy with all that CO2 and they convert it into oxygen and a biowaste that can be treated and burned for fuel.

Hopefully an idea takes off like this in sunny areas that are good conditions for algae. Even if we had to get artificial sunlight on the algae, we'd still be money ahead; we have a good deposit for CO2, an O2 production plant, and biofuel to boot.

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• Re: OT - Biofuels, not so green - David Sherman 19:40:56 05/14/2008
  • 300 years of coal - 48PW 22:17:49 05/14/2008
    • Re: 300 years of coal - D. Sherman 00:22:01 05/15/2008
      • D Sherman is right - A chemist's view 19:16:30 05/16/2008
        • Re: Is this good?? - Just a Farmer 01:36:58 05/17/2008
  • Re: OT - Biofuels, not so green - M Fanoni 19:59:20 05/14/2008
    • Re: OT - Biofuels, not so green - David Sherman 20:56:12 05/14/2008
      • What's it called again? - M Fanoni 23:38:40 05/14/2008
        • Re: What's it called again? - D. Sherman 00:15:55 05/15/2008
    • Mike, it takers energy to make C02 back into oxygen. - Chris Case @ San Diego 20:38:02 05/14/2008
      • CO2 to CO to gasoline - 48PW 21:27:38 05/14/2008
        • Re: CO2 to CO to gasoline - D. Sherman 00:04:11 05/15/2008

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