Algae Bio Mass Farms can produce up to 33,000 gallons of oil per acre per year!
Boone Pickens is trying to make a difference. I am trying to make a difference. There is a way to make Oil that is not getting much press.
This process is to make Fuel from Algae. This process is clean. This process is renewable. This process won't drive up food prices like the process from corn to ethanol - quite the opposite in my opinion. I believe prices would begin to come down for the commodities related to energy. This Algae I am referring to, is not grown in ponds. This Algae is grown in a closed system - a Bio Reactor. Each Algae Cell typically contains 50% oil or more. By comparing corn against Algae - there is no comparison. The film clip indicates that one acre of corn will produce 18 - 25 gallons of oil yearly. One acre of Algae will produce 33,000 gallons of oil yearly. With some land dedicated to this process, all of our oil needs could be satisfied. Imports from foreign oil would drop drastically. We wouldn't have to drill either anymore - either offshore or in the Arctic. It is estimated that 1/10th of the land mass of New Mexico dedicated to this process could produce all of our oil needs.
Another great thing about this is that different strains of Algae can produce different types of fuel. I.e. diesel, gas, fuel oil and more can be produced by these means. These Algae Bio Reactors could be built near where the refineries are. That would cut down on the transportation of the oil as we know it now. How much would that save? There are a few more things about this Plan. This Algae Oil Production will use up carbon dioxide which will help with the Green House Effect that we are having. Algae needs carbon dioxide to grow. Growing corn causes a lot of fuel hydrocarbons to be released into the atmosphere and adds to pollutants.
I want the same thing that Boone Pickens is striving for. To use every means possible to cut back on our imports of oil - now! Not 10 years from now. I want the best way to produce energy. I hope Boone takes a look at this idea and gives it some thought. Personally, I think this is the very best idea I have heard of so far to date. I have not heard of one bad thing yet about producing Oil from Algae.
Take a look at the Valcent Site. It explains it well.
Don't be misled about the lower cost of oil at this time. Once we get out of this recession the price of oil will rise again and the pain will re-emerge once again from the high cost of fuel for driving and heating.
This is a great idea and I hope you can appreciate this Plan. This Plan really needs to be explored and needs your help for it to work. You need to write your Senators and Representatives about this Plan. I am hopeful that once they learn of the significance of this Plan that they will give incentives so this Plan can start producing sooner than later!
Remember, it took us about 10 years from start to finish to achieve one of man's greatest achievments - Going to the Moon! We did it three times. No other country has achieved this even with modern technology. We now have another Challenge - to get off Foreign Oil and to retain our way of life and all the choices we hold dear. This can be achieved by going all out on producing Oil from Algae and developing the latest technologies to do this.
http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html
This is Valcent's Web Site. Check it out!
http://www.valcent.net/s/Ecotech.asp?ReportID=182039
This process is to make Fuel from Algae. This process is clean. This process is renewable. This process won't drive up food prices like the process from corn to ethanol - quite the opposite in my opinion. I believe prices would begin to come down for the commodities related to energy. This Algae I am referring to, is not grown in ponds. This Algae is grown in a closed system - a Bio Reactor. Each Algae Cell typically contains 50% oil or more. By comparing corn against Algae - there is no comparison. The film clip indicates that one acre of corn will produce 18 - 25 gallons of oil yearly. One acre of Algae will produce 33,000 gallons of oil yearly. With some land dedicated to this process, all of our oil needs could be satisfied. Imports from foreign oil would drop drastically. We wouldn't have to drill either anymore - either offshore or in the Arctic. It is estimated that 1/10th of the land mass of New Mexico dedicated to this process could produce all of our oil needs.
Another great thing about this is that different strains of Algae can produce different types of fuel. I.e. diesel, gas, fuel oil and more can be produced by these means. These Algae Bio Reactors could be built near where the refineries are. That would cut down on the transportation of the oil as we know it now. How much would that save? There are a few more things about this Plan. This Algae Oil Production will use up carbon dioxide which will help with the Green House Effect that we are having. Algae needs carbon dioxide to grow. Growing corn causes a lot of fuel hydrocarbons to be released into the atmosphere and adds to pollutants.
I want the same thing that Boone Pickens is striving for. To use every means possible to cut back on our imports of oil - now! Not 10 years from now. I want the best way to produce energy. I hope Boone takes a look at this idea and gives it some thought. Personally, I think this is the very best idea I have heard of so far to date. I have not heard of one bad thing yet about producing Oil from Algae.
Take a look at the Valcent Site. It explains it well.
Don't be misled about the lower cost of oil at this time. Once we get out of this recession the price of oil will rise again and the pain will re-emerge once again from the high cost of fuel for driving and heating.
This is a great idea and I hope you can appreciate this Plan. This Plan really needs to be explored and needs your help for it to work. You need to write your Senators and Representatives about this Plan. I am hopeful that once they learn of the significance of this Plan that they will give incentives so this Plan can start producing sooner than later!
Remember, it took us about 10 years from start to finish to achieve one of man's greatest achievments - Going to the Moon! We did it three times. No other country has achieved this even with modern technology. We now have another Challenge - to get off Foreign Oil and to retain our way of life and all the choices we hold dear. This can be achieved by going all out on producing Oil from Algae and developing the latest technologies to do this.
http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html
This is Valcent's Web Site. Check it out!
http://www.valcent.net/s/Ecotech.asp?ReportID=182039
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Permalink Reply by Trevor on -
But you're still talking about burning gasoline and petroleum gases which release CO2 so unless the algae can suck in more carbon than their oil emits, this isn't the greastest of ideas for the long term. However, i believe it could be used as a branch from now until we have the technology to go strictly to electric power. Just a thought. don't take it offensively.
-Trevor
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Permalink Reply by Peter Njuguna on -
We dont have something that doesnt produce co2 as yet so we'll just have to use what we got until otherwise.
Hope everyone has heard about how Hugo Chavez is trying to give Venezuelans free cars in exchange for their gas guzzlers. I believe this should be a wake up call for Americans that even giant oil producing countries are moving towards cheaper cleaner sources of energy.
Maybe algae is not 100% clean but at least its cleaner than the foreign oil that we are paying $700 billion a year for.
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Permalink Reply by Terrence Abrams on -
Yeah, that Chavez promise has a rat's chance in hell of ever happening. He's already ordered a ton of SUV's for his executive staff, guess who's supplying those? He's also sitting on huge oil reserves he's getting China to help him drill up, he's got carbon-emission factories, that per acre-per-capita produce more smog and pollutants than most industrial USA areas, and he uses green energy as an anti-american propaganda plug only.
Algae does become 100% clean biodiesel during the final refinement process, and makes gasoline about 90% carbon free and automotive run time. It is cleaner, and over time, not that long a time, will also be cheaper, by far, that crude gasoline.
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Permalink Reply by Peter Njuguna on
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Hi Terrence
Of course i didnt mean to say that Chavez is going green, my point was he is trying to utilize natural gas in his country then sell the oil at a high price to Americans; same case with Iran.
Back to alga culture. Dont you think if we spend all the money that we are giving to farmers as subsidies to grow corn for ethanol and allocated it to companies producing bio fuels from algae that this would increase domestic production. But I bet no politician would advocate for that openly since its an election year and they wanna get the mid westerners voting for them.
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Permalink Reply by Terrence Abrams on
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Yes, good points Peter, but it may not be necessary. Cases in point:
Boeing is working through Origin Oil to develop their own jet fuel from Algae Bio-reactors now.
Lockheed is working with Valcent and Sapphire Energy to investigate getting Jet Fuel from Algae now.
Gulf Cheveron has their own bio-fuel division already trying to produce such crude replacing oils now West Texas, not too far north of El Paso, where Valcent already has their bio-reactor plant set for biodiesel production.
Petrosun is already manufacturing plants around the world for open pond algae production into biodiesel and jet fuel.
Green Star Products is negotiating with two of these players now for replication rights to their biofuel production and rights for distributing the fuel nationwide.
So, you see, there is capital already going to the ends you refer to. Corn for Ethanol has been disregarded already by the politicians even, so that particular subsidy should die. Best hopes are that the subsidy money will go into other biofuels we're discussing.
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Permalink Reply by Lock Piatt on -
terrence,
the money you speak of might be coming from The DOD and the Air Force. Who said the military can not save us ??????
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Permalink Reply by Peter Njuguna on
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Lock
Lets be realistic now. Military needs more money right now than ever before. we need to save money by producing domestic fuels so that we can fund our military not the other way round.
If you look at what terrence said, we have companies that are already investing in alga culture for oil production. All we need now is govt support to see this industry grow. Allocate funds to the projects that are efficient in producing bio fuels.
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Permalink Reply by Terrence Abrams on
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Some of it could be Lock, I can't say for certain myself. ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Lock Piatt on
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Peter and Terrence go to the DOD.gov site and the energydept.gov site it is all there. The money is going through the Military contractors - Boeing and Lockheed etc.
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Permalink Reply by Tami Freedman on -
Hi Henry, thanks for starting this post!
I've got a website that has alot of this information: www.Algae4Oil.com
ALGAE needs to be in the Pickens Plan prominently -- here's the basic information:
ALGAE FOR BIO-FUEL
REPLACE OPEC. Stop US Dollars to Mideast. End "Oil Wars."
Pay US Farmers instead while REVERSING GLOBAL WARMING!
Algae multiplies so quickly and produces so much oxygen per square foot that algae ponds with a total surface area five times the size of Colorado (1994 data) would start reversing our growing CO2 problem. Corn nets approx 81 gallons bio-diesel per acre. Soy nets 41 gallons per acre (both inefficiently using food crops). Algae yields as high as 15,000 gallons per acre!
Enough bio-diesel to replace all U.S. petroleum transportation fuels could be grown in 9.5 million acres - far less than the 450 million acres currently used for crop farming in the U.S., and the over 500 million acres used as grazing land for farm animals. Algae farms could utilize scrub land and polluted water areas, not affecting America’s crop/grazing land, while using waste streams (CO2 from power plants, human sewage, or waste from animal farms) as food sources.
To move the U.S. from dependence on foreign oil, would take approx. $308 billion to build sufficient algae farms. Thereafter, the operating costs would equate to $46.2 billion per year for enough algae farms to yield all the oil feedstock necessary for the entire country.
Note: The U.S. government pays $40 billion per year in defense costs associated with protecting Mideast oil supplies, then… Compare $46.2 billion annually going to U.S. farmers to the $100-150 billion the U.S. spends each year purchasing crude oil from foreign countries, leaving the U.S. economy (to OPEC / Mideast), plus $40 billion defending OPEC.
Unfortunately, in 1996, our government stopped algae research (with above data), rather now pushing two “well-lobbied” options: 1) Expensive, explosive, zero-minus Hydrogen (energy efficiencies below 100%, i.e. takes more energy to produce than you get), and requiring $trillions of dollars for completely new U.S. fuel infrastructure (changing 6+ gas pumps at 176.000 stations, & changing all car/truck fuel tanks), and; 2) Corn / Soy food crop to fuel (inefficient fuel source, raise food prices, increase hunger).
CONTACT CONGRESS, ASK THEM FOR “ALGAE HEARINGS”:REVERSE GLOBAL WARMING, MOVE US AWAY FROM OPEC. Algae, pond scum also a planet saver? YES, if we take action!
More info on Hydrogen and exact Algae Farm infrastructure numbers in article by University of NH, Physics & Bio-Diesel Group Professor (great appreciation!) Dr. Michael Briggs PhD:
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
And more info at my website: www.algae4oil.com TamiFreedman@aol.com
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Permalink Reply by Terrence Abrams on
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Hey Tami, welcome in.
If you want the list of all the companies we've found doing this, its already been posted on past pages here, but I'd be happy to update it for you and send it along.
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Permalink Reply by Tami Freedman on
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Hi Terrence,
I'd love a list of the companies. Please either post here or send to my
email: TamiFreedman@aol.com
THANKS and APPRECIATE YOU!!!!
Tami
www.Algae4Oil.com
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