[Land-speed] Algae Biodiesel

[neil at dbelltech.com]

Jack;

Maybe we can have a bumper sticker printed that says "Kill a polar bear--
save an Eskimo". :)

Regards, Neil   Tucson, AZ

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To: drmayf at mayfco.com; John Burk
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Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Algae Biodiesel

Why don't we make fuel with all the fat from polar bears that have died from
2 stroke model airplane  exhaust? Jack
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: drmayf <drmayf at mayfco.com>
> 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
> John Burk wrote:
> 
> >Red, white , blue and smart fuel . Works as diesel and heating oil or can
be
> >refined into gasoline .
> >
> >
> >
>
>http://gas2.org/2008/04/25/could-we-grow-100000-gallons-of-oil-per-acre-yes
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> >ays-vertigro-algae-biofuel-video/
> >
> >John
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