We Can Power The World With Algae!
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- Scientists are always looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, but what about algae? Can algae be used to create biofuel?
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What Are Algae?
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"Algae are a diverse group of aquatic organisms that have the ability to conduct photosynthesis. Certain algae are familiar to most people; for instance, seaweeds (such as kelp or phytoplankton), pond scum or the algal blooms in lakes. However, there exists a vast and varied world of algae that are not only helpful to us, but are critical to our existence."
Biofuels from algae: challenges and potential
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"Algae biofuels may provide a viable alternative to fossil fuels; however, this technology must overcome a number of hurdles before it can compete in the fuel market and be broadly deployed."
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"Biofuels have been around as long as cars have. At the start of the 20th century, Henry Ford planned to fuel his Model Ts with ethanol, and early diesel engines were shown to run on peanut oil."
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If algae fuel replaced all the petroleum fuel in the United States, it would require 15,000 square miles (39,000 km2), which is only 0.42% of the U.S. map. -Wikipedia
Wow, really!
That's half a state soulfully devoted to biofuel. It needs to be more efficient but it does have promise
Evan Terrell what method of growing is that based on, cos Vertical PBR obviously take up much less space than other methods. So perhaps that figure could be better?
So far, I love the idea of algae biofuel, but Wikipedia itself is not a valid source 😛
The wikipedia article links to a Washington post article that apparently sites no sources 🤷♀️
It does make you wonder. Why don't we just do it? go balls deep with renewable energy and leave fossil fuels behind. But greed knows no limits, even if that means the certain demise of our planet. Its a shame.
we need to have billions to make this happen and the good old oil companies are greedy and won't allow this to happen
It's not economically or even physically practical yet.
We can't go mass production yet but we can start doing this in small scale.
I'm not so sure about the middle 2.
balls deep eh? i like the way you think
I would put algae in my tank at $2.00/gal with the expectancy that it would drop to under $1.00/gal in the next 3 years.
Yes but that requires logic and our government has solidly proven they have none of it.
As soon as oil is more expensive than algae that's when companies will make the switch
It alredy is
Exxon-Mobil is actually pouring a lot of funds into this. Don't worry.
Yes I’ve watched vids about people who was making Algea fuel then the Oil companies produced more Oil bringing the price down and making Algea Fuel uncompetitive, also Fracking in US was part of this price drop in fossil Oil.
When you say it like that it sounds like it's a problem that fixes it self
It is
Ethanol biofuels are cheaper than oil
I f***ing love you science
ELEMENTS!
fuckin' a.
TRACE WHERE DID U BUY THAT SHIRT
Out of curiosity, since you love science, what do you do for it? What do you do for science?
John Clarke zscience ghe study of gods creation. I love it too
And the other problem with ethanol as a fuel is people drinking it since ethanol is the alcohol we all know and love.
Tenebris Scarrow But they make it toxic, this has happened in history before.
They can denature ut making it toxic to drinking and still useable to burn
It happened with methylated spirits i believe, alcoholics were drinking it, the they made it blue and toxic so people stopped drinking it to save the alcohol industry
Yes, companies also use it to exempt themselves for tax when using it in products such as deodorants as its not classed as drinkable alcohol
Look up Brazil they use it ethanol is not as bad as you think for fuel. The oil companies lied that food price rise was caused by using it as fuel. The type of corn used is different than the one you eat after they extract the ethanol from corn the byproduct is feed for cattle we produced so much of it the price dropped. Even if ethanol cost more I would rather give the money to farmers than send it to some far off land.
I've been talking about this for at least 6 years...
Pink Program Ditto .
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Well you didn't tell me and I would have been interested.
Now 10
If it makes my car go and doesn't break anything I will put it in my fuel tank. I even like that it might be algae fuel. I'll use the hell out of that.
Why aren't we doing this on a larger scale?
watch the other video and you'll know
Because of money.
More expensive then just pumping it
Taking a class on algae and money is the issue. It's pretty good for wastewater though.
Because if we do so, in a short time, many bad things can happen.For example: If many of these algae find their way into a lake or an underground water reservoir with lots of nutrients and animals, they will multiply alot and start using up all of the oxygen, thus killing the animals.
Correct me if I am wrong.
i cant believe some people would really risk destroying our futures just for money ......sigh
So many different techs. There's also algae hydrolysis where you heat up algae and water in a pressure vessel. The product is called Green crude and is chemically similar to petrol crude.
Thanks for sharing this amazing video when it is clarified the properties and benefits of algae. It even seems to be a productive solution very soon for problems such as global climate and lack of artificial resources. Here algae arise as a natural component capable of giving oil, food, and ultimately, and most importantly, renewable energy.
I take Chlorella and Spirulina tablets. After a cousin of mine told my family about them, I was instantly hooked on what lil ol' algae could do.
Great benefits they have.
I'd rather spend more to save the environment. Anybody else?
This can save the environment
Agreed
Let's save this world
not anyone in business
Ok then that should be your decision. Everyone shouldnt be forced to make it..
i can only imagine the performance gains could be in an automotive 4 stroke engine with further development of the algae fuels. even e85, although being less potent, if enough is delivered to the engine performance can be increased significantly
I live in Northern California and the lake here (Clearlake) has a massive problem with algae. The smell is awful when the summer days are long, hot, sunny. We all want a clean lake to enjoy recreational activities etc. Apparently a company from (Japan?) Said they'd be able to remove all the algae for us. For free. They planned to use it for producing fuel. Our wonderful county, Lake County, said NOPE. They wanted the company to pay the county to remove the algae. So here we are years later with a summertime bog of eternal stench and still wanting a nice lake to enjoy.
Damn, well I hope soon we start using Algae
Thanks, I would love to see this as the way forward with energy production. Lots of carbon neutral fuel and I get to keep running my car with a proper engine!
I read about a proposal to make huge glass tube panels of gas producing algae on the walls of buildings to make them self sufficient.
can you share the link ?
How much energy this "Fuel conversion/extraction" process require ? I mean to get the final product ?
Where can we read any scientific evidence to do comparison between the actual and this new fuel production energy requirements?
Is there any official documents to get?
I'm very interested but sceptic too...
The Ford Model T you are ref to ran on Hemp seed oil, also all the panels were made from Hemp- Fibreglass also all the lubricants and Hydraulic oils were made from Hemp oil.
Isnt it ironic I got an advertisement for an oil company on this exact video??
Where does he get all the cool science shirts?
ikr I'm looking everywhere since I first saw one of their videos ;_;
yeah, same here! I can´t find these science shirts, I really want one.
I find it difficult to find a periodic table shirt let alone the ones that he has.
Who else thinks this channel will become BuzzFeed after about 5 years
same lmao
SirLemming yup
well, we've been around for four and we've not become buzzfeed yet...... so... talk to you in a year.
+Trace Dominguez well i have seen most of the test tube/seeker channels with the liberal perspective.
hi,
Iam are also working on a project on production of biofuel from alge ..Iam looking for any subsitute of photobioreactor for algal growth.can you suggest any subsitute...
Surely simply switching to Algae based Petrol and diesel would be better for the environment than electric vehicles and scrapping all the current perfectly serviceable vehicles? Has to be, as you don't have the emissions from 1 scrapping the old serviceable vehicles, and 2, making the batteries and everything else required in production of new vehicles. From my point of view, it makes much more sense to keep combustion engines but simply use clean Algae petrol and diesel in them.
Virgin Australia put out the call to find a company that could provide them with biofuel for their jets. They actively searched and found a source which wasn't easy with the amount that they need. How cool :)
US steel is testing it in Ontario and has been for a while, using stack gases to grow algae and then burn them creating a closed cycle
Great content, totally worth subscribing for.
So this means internal combustion engines can live on?
YES WE CAN STILL DRIVE OUR ICE CARS! I don't want my Studebaker to be regulated to my garage just because of technological progress.
Happiness
I really hope so!!
So many people regurgirating the same: "major oil companies would shut it down". Exactly what are you imagining they would do? Did the coal-mining companies manage to stop the fossil-fuel ones from expanding? The reason we don't have this yet is because it hasn't been scaled up enough; it might be difficult to grow the algae (I've been in the lab *today* trying to get algae to produce more oil), or it might be that small businesses aren't subsidized, and few people or other companies/private persons have invested in them
Woah woah woah, we don't tolerate that kind of rational, thoughtful discussion here on The Internet. Take that crap... well, somewhere else, i guess.
jk. you're absolutely right. There's no massive conspiracy to shutter competitors, some companies fight against them, but if the public wants them to exist, they'll keep popping up. Certain technologies are inevitable, and biofuel is one of them... it might not be this company, but, like electric cars, once things take root, they will grow like a weed.
Thank you, Trace :) Yes, I belive, eventually, we'll have a better solution than extraction of fossil fuel. I know oil companies can be quite evil (read the paragraph below this, if you're interested), but yea: there's no conspiracy theory about shutting down competitors, and if the competitors are good, the oil companies might actually rather buy a share in their business and thus support it
So, now for some very new information about the evils of oil companies. Today I was at a show where PhD students presented their assignments. One of them worked with an oil company and presented her newest solution to how to extract more oil. What they want to patent and use, is coated silica nanoparticles, which they will pump into the stone that the oil is extracted out off. This will increase the amount of oil they can extract by quite a lot. When this was presented on stage and the host of the show then asked "aren't there some risks to the environment", the answer of the "mastermind" of this plan was to laugh it off and say "I think it's better for me to just go backstage". I guess that many people there didn't quite understand what using nanoparticles involved, as they really liked the idea. To explain the problem: nanoparticles are very hard to contain and clean up, so if they are released into the environment, they can't really be cleaned up well at all. What effect they will have on the environment in the sea is also unknown, although quite a few studies have been done on the toxicity of silica nanoparticles and adverse effects were observed in most cases. To mention though: this nanoparticle idea is not something new, but it's scary that someon would be willing to use such methods of oil extraction when the clean-up is nerly impossible and the envoronmental side-effects can potentially be quite serious. Still no conspiracy to shut down competitors though.
yeah..keep telling yourself that.
#RevolutionOrBust
And another great example of someone claming something... without any information about HOW the companies would do that
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I read there was a project to make algae powered buildings with the algae growing in containers for the outside walls.
But when you burn the biofuel, doesn't that also release C02 as well? I'm curious on how that'd work.
The things you can do with Algae is incredible I just ordered a pair of shoes made from 100% algae
The history of the suppression of biofuels is an interesting one. Henry Ford was trying to circumvent John D. Rockefeller who at the time had monopolized the fossil oil markets. The break-up of that monopoly did allow Ford to move on to the better fuel economy of the petroleum fuels and the market for alcohol recovered from the folly of prohibition making the farming sector happy.
Various government subsidies for "mineral" extraction were and still are to some degree messing with the economics of our oil based economy. Mining in general has never paid the full price for the destruction of land, and often watersheds it causes, while government aid in numerous forms continues to prop up those industries.
While these biofuels look good based upon our current engine technologies which developed around the petroleum based fuels, they would probably look even better if we developed our newest transport engines around their best ratio of energy output to sun light input. And therein lies the true efficiency conumdrum.
All energy (save nuclear) is solar energy. This biofuel does short circuit the fossil fuel cycle where long periods of storage in the earth gives oil and gas its peculiar concentration which then seems to be "found" and thus confers profitable ownership under a long history of special case legislation. It may or may not be the best way to "Mine" the sun for transport energy. Perhaps directly storing the energy in better batteries with more efficient PV arrays will allow for electric propulsion for everything. The race is on.
What a shame. Our laws still stultify much of this development because most entrepeneurs prefer a source they can control all the way to the marketplace and sunlight is so egalitarian that it is everywhere.
For the sake of ensuring their enrichment and increasing and sustaining power through the creation of scarcity, the power elites of the world have deliberately decided not to suppress the development of the much objectively better energy and power harnessing sources (nuclear and renewables) and continue to this day to push through with fossil fuels which are scarce, polluting, GHG emitting etc.
I was hyped on this stuff in 2006 to the point I bought a diesel car but it has never become what was promised back then.
You have to grow it in warm climate and takes 1000's of acres, in fact that is Kauai in the video, wish I still had that job, I enjoyed that job, worked with great people
HOORAY! Due to this development, classic cars can still be on the road! I don't want my Studebaker to be regulated to my garage just because of technological progress.
Also, algae is where the Earth gets most of it's oxygen... from in the ocean where the algae could be/is grown. :)
Hey Trace!! Another Great Video!!
this is incredible hope this becomes widely used
Hello Seeker,
I wrote my bachelor thesis about biofuels, so algae are quite interesting for me. On the one hand, the idea seems nice to have a fast and easy growing fuel crop, but on the other hand, I asked myself, how expensive it is, to remove all the water before the oil extraction can take place. Furthermore, the ratio between oil and algae is very small, isn't it? In the conclusion of my thesis, I couldn't decide whether each of the single fuel crops I described, could be THE solution for the alternative energy production and wrote, that a multicultural plantation of different plants would be the best (especially for the biodiversity).
What do you think: Do algae have a promising future?
Thank you for the informative video! :)
I sincerely hope it does. I don't want my Studebaker to be regulated to my garage just because of technological progress.
Lower cost harvesting and extraction was completed in the initial technology development, scaling up now: www.globalgae.com
this is why i dont evever believe in full ev automobiles. you press the oil out and can power a diesel motor with nothing added. you can have algae farms in the desert of say southern California , New Mexico, Arizona and Texas without any major impact on the land. algae farms can also be used vertically in polycarbonate cylinders which can be used in citys. finally there is at least one research program with a algae farm next coal or other fuel power plant and they capture the exhaust and pump and bubble it in to the algae pools. Therefore capturing some of the pollutants before they ever get to the atmosphere.
i wish the technology would grow faster then it has been.
And even better, the genetically modified algae converts CO2 into oxygen as they produce biofuel precursors.
200% SMUG No to Gentic Engineering, if we have learned anything about creating a Sustainable future it is use what we already have, whether it is finding Algea with the naturally highest Oil content and working out what nutrients, gasses, temp makes that Algea produce the most Oil. It’s a low tech solution, pls don’t spoil it by high tech technical fixes, and producing GMO Algea that the products from would release GMO into our environment!. We don’t need GMO Algea anyway as we can already make a lot of Oil from the Algea that’s naturally( organic) occurring!
kris johnson 100% agree, and to think of the thousands of miles poisoned by fracking to produce an infior fuel, and takes almost half the amount of oil to pump it up and process it. I wonder how much Algea fuel we could produce on that same amount of land. Taking into account the energy needed to drill, pump and process fracked oil?.
Re EV we simply don’t have the time or the renewable energy to replace billions of vehicle with EV that also rely on Lithium that is destructive to the environment and requires hazardous chemicals, also it’s non renewable, whereas if we rolled out PBR in every town, village, city and neighbourhood we could make enough clean burning Carbon Negative liquid fuels while also producing other products such as supplements as Algea is high in Omega 3&6. So we could use all the vehicles we already have and by driving with Algea fuel we would be taking Carbon from the atmosphere, instead of pumping it in!. Also if some incentives such as are given to fossil fuel companies was used to kick start the private Algea fuel industry, and used army engineers to help roll out PBR, we could be off Petroleum Vehicle fuels in a 5-10 years!.
Can we generate power using algae oils . any exsisting power plant fueled by algae oils ,,,??
What algae type dominated the early earth b4 blue green took over? Two questions for possible video: 1) With increasing world ice meltdown will we see an increase in earthquakes & volcanoes due to increase water wt/pressure on tectonic plates? 2) With all this talk about going to Mars why arent we building a staging area on the moon where we could supply & launch spacecrafts using less energy? Great channel thx!
I really wish more people understood the carbon cycle, its grade school science complicated but I end up arguing with collage graduates, who claim they care about the environment, on how any plant based global warming gases are not contributing to the environment. Seriously, they are worse than religious zealots, going around yelling SCIENCE, SCIENCE, SCIENCE, with no understanding of how things work, parroting science studies with no understanding of the review and duplication process. These problems aren't hard people, but if you start attacking all the solutions and convincing your buddies the solutions are the devil, guess what? Global warming, that's what. You don't need to compete with the oil industry, you only need people to buy your product, that's it.
I took biotechnology classes in university where the professor had to actually explain to students why producing and burning biofuel is zero net carbon. You'd think it would be obvious to biology students--people who have literally been (or should have been) studying the intricacies of carbon their entire lives. But no. Some of them needed reminders.
Only science could save us #ScienceFTW
I worked over there had to change a gate valve and made a well for them there so cool
Can you do a video on the Symbiosis between salamanders and algae and how we could use that
So in 20 years or so i can go to a gas/bioliquid station and just drink it ?
I want the bike like generator that produces 24 hours of electricity from 1 hour of peddling.
dude if that was possible it would be awesome, no need for paying for power anymore especially since 24 hours worth of electricity can easily power a machine that peddles for you, basically making more electricity than it uses up
Not possible else auto power the bike to pedal for you for 1 hr for 24hr electric?
I would love a more in depth video about this... Looks pretty interesting.
Nad Kudo
ExxonMobil has invested 600million$ in these algae biofuels. They are going to get it in to market with in a decade!
In a decade if this happens IC Engines will be more sustainable than EV'S
Hi Dnews
In Sikhism people say that
Everything is growing or moving further
Even stones
What do you think about the stones?
Can you please say something on that?
Talking about global warming and not mentioning animal agriculture is like talking about the best actors and not mentioning Leonardo Dicaprio.
talking about turning plants into biofuels and bringing up agriculture is like starting a sentence with an argument and wanna go ride bikes?
Biofuels are scam. The power density is almost zero. Look at ethanol scam....billions in subsides. Biofuels makes food more expensive while providing only one half 1 percent of world's energy.
Ironic you mention DiCaprio, considering he lectures us all about living carbon neutral lifestyles while jet setting around on his private plane and yachts and drinking imported wine.
Sounds cool. I need one of these things attached to my toilet so I can power my house.
I seen a thing on the History Channel where they were making oil out of algae in the middle of the desert in Nevada or Arizona I can't remember which one but I haven't heard anything about it since and it's been years ago maybe the oil companies already shut it down yes we need to get off oil and start making alternate fuel source
I am down with this !!
where can I buy some of this ?
Rest in peace - the fossil fuel industry. Hopefully.
We still need plastic
global warming and hunger can also be stopped by gettin vegan. just sayin.
It can also stop the reproduction of retards as well.
True but I fear people are wayyy to stubborn.
In order to feed humans on a vegan diet with current methods you would need to deforest half of the planet. Symbiotic Aquaculture works much better.
Pink Program Not true at all we feed a disproportionate amount of plant foods to animals, relative to what they yield to humans in the form of food.
I will agree how ever aquaponics works very well!
do you know what s new in this area? Thanks
Another question is does it partially desalinate? Could it bring down the cost of desalinization, and could desalinization bring down the cost of algae oil? Both have the goal of taking up minerals in the water.
I'll happily eat algae food produce, but we need to come up with tasty recipes for it.
If they're not already doing this maybe they could make sheets out of algae like nori and use it as a nori alternative in making sushi. Or crispy algae garnish like crispy seaweed.
@Seeker is Monday when you drop videos?
Algae can also be used as an excellent food source if you have the right kinds. particularly seaweed. That's 2 things algae can do for us.
Dos anyone know if it's only biodiesel being produced but no ethanol?
This sounds great. But I'm curious about the EROEI ratios. Fossil fuel Gasoline has 45 megajoules / kg . How much energy does a kg of gasoline from algae contain and how much energy is required to get it? If there has been a major break through here then this is something to get really excited about....
Also implemented on organic concrete would work wonders!
I grow my own to feed enough to supplement over 1000 chickens every day year round. Amazing stuff.
Reminds me of when farmers thought that peanuts were only useful as pig feed. Then George Washington Carver came and showed them that they could have many uses while revolutionizing modern agriculture.
In Powerplants we use also Biogas, coal and dumpburning. Could we Filter the CO2 and CO trough a pipe filled with algae and sunlight with the CO2 we get oxygen and the algae transform it into sugar and Oxygen.
I would love to see this on d new plus more part of the application
I hope it will be used as fuel by many and I'd eat algea here and there, I actually have been wanting to try some for a while but I don't know where to buy them
Nice video am from India and am an engg student am going to do seminar n this algae fules and gases can u help me for some journals which is related to this can u send me plz
I'm starting to gather research on what I'm about to ask, but why aren't we doing this with the red tide blooming in Florida? My state uses so much oil especially in hospitals. Wouldn't it diminish the amount of red tide?
Currently working on these algae ...
I miss this format so much
where do i go to invest???
DNEWS again on Seeker !!
No lie I came across this video because I typed it in as an idea that came to my head... Glad it wasn't a crazy assumption 😂💡
Awesome video !
You guys,we need a globalised network of biofuel plants
If we can somehow extract carbon from the atmosphere, we could supply these plants with carbon and provide energy for its surrounding area
That's so wierd, I thought about this last week xD and now i see it on a video
well same things happens with me
This is super cool
Yay, they finally talked about this.
discovery news...what happens if we donate any organ in a body like kidney while ...will the only kidney can take up the functions ..anythings happens or nothing differs
what is this company called?
Soylent uses Algal oil.... although I enjoy food too much at this point to switch to soylent anytime soon.
They should switch to using high-energy plankton
I can't believe we're not using this yet
Find the algae that can collect the most carbon and then use it as storage so pump the algae into old emptied oil fields also could pump to bottom of the ocean and settle with and evenly covered by sediment.
There was a plan to use the algae from Lake Okeechobee Florida to make Bio-Fuel but was stopped because of Big Oil!
All internal combustion engines can safely and economically use E15, regardless of age. This is proven by Brazil's decades long use of E15, E25, and now E27. They have the same engines as those available in the U.S.
In addition, E15 to E30 was used throughout Great Britain from the 1920's to the 1970's. This is also true of other countries such as France and Germany.
My 600+ page book "THE ETHANOL PAPERS" has just been published and it's free to read on @t website.
If the end product is oil identical to conventional means of production how will this decrease the pollution caused from burning the biofuel? Wouldn't it pollute similar to our current fuel?
No. It's a carbon neutral production method. No additional pollutants would be released.
Must invest in this
Very interesting.
Mind Blowing
ethenol has a higher RON rathing the standard petrol. alot of performance cars run pure ethenol because of the power gains.
the down of ethenol is that it has a very short lifespan before it goes stale. when it goes stale it turn into a jelly like substance that pretty much kills your car.
Trace, feel free to contact if you dissagree :)
Awesome!😄
How many KW in a litre?
Maybe you don't realize if you completed manufacturing cycle and exited facility door after ten years. Perfect place to make your bicycle road.
This video made me Happy.
You don’t have to grow a field of corn for ethanol. There already exists enough corn bi-product to produce it