[Land-speed] Algae Biodiesel

drmayf drmayf at mayfco.com
Thu Jul 31 09:45:48 MDT 2008


Jack! We DO! But that fat from polar bears is used to make the fuel that 
is used in model airplanes flown only n Alaska and Northern Canada.  I 
don't think the polar bears in Russia have been affected yet. 

mayf
NT788 at comcast.net wrote:

>Why don't we make fuel with all the fat from polar bears that have died from 2 stroke model airplane  exhaust? Jack
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>From: drmayf <drmayf at mayfco.com>
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>>Yep, algae is a great producer of bio diesel.  However, there were a few 
>>significant details missing, lol.. Like this takes the equivalent of 200 
>>acres to produce he 100,000 gallons per YEAR It also need carbon dioxide 
>>as well. Yeah we have lots of that right now but putting a facility in 
>>th emiddl eof nowhere requires yo have some extracion methods for CO2 to 
>>feed to the algae.  Just supposing, bu if you wanted to replace all the 
>>petro fuels with this then you woul dneed approximately 731,000 acre 
>>equivalents.  And did we notice how the extraction is done? Nope becaus 
>>eit is not as easy to do as made to sound.  That takes a fair amount of 
>>energy itslf as I understand it. You don't just throw a wad of it into 
>>the tank of the truck. I believer it has to be dried first, then crushed 
>>and the oils separated form the left overs and then processed.  Will it 
>>work, You betcha! I saw a proram the other evening regarding a power 
>>plant in partnership with an algae company doing similar except that 
>>they were capturing the co2 from the stacks to feed the algae and they 
>>also used bio reactors which were individual grow tanks, similar to this.
>>
>>I hope this happens but believe me, diesel won't come back down in 
>>price. How you gonna get them back on the farm when they been to the 
>>city, lol...
>>
>>Good catch, I like that  people are thinking out of the box..
>>
>>mayf 


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