Algae Power | This American Land Season 4
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We need this technology to develop FAST!!!
algae also produce the most oxygen in the world around 65% of the oxygen!
@Scott van Niekerk hello brother this is kavin from India . I need to contact you
@äpplet 1234 that's a cool project - did you figure something out? I've seen some setups where people grow spirulina in bottles.
(Cries) Thank you for taking your byproducts and using them effectively!
We need a rebirth of promoting this technology. Anything made from crude oil can be made from algae oil without the environmental impacts, even plastics. Like they said, it's like crude oil except it's not rancid and toxic. Since you're using fresh lipids you're getting a cleaner and in most cases non-toxic products so spills would not be environmentally damaging. The fuels created I have up to 86% less commission so it would be like taking 86% of the internal-combustion off the market without having to convert, destroy, or replace anyting. And I'm not just talking about cars!
Need to connect algae production with wastewater treatment plants (facilities) that use anaerobic digesters. Those digesters produce massive amounts of waste gas CO2, and methane which can be scrubbed, compressed and sent directly to generate extra power to operate the algae processes. People...We need to liberate ourselves from fossil oil the petrodollar (due to the geopolitical problems it creates)...We need to get on a biodollar model similar to the fossil/petro, but regionalized, and environmentally sustainable..
Carl Lelandt Also worth mentioning about wastewater plants is their abundance of trace nutrient containing water. And I think most of those plants using anaerobic digesters, are using old design technology degesters that were developed back in the earlier 20th century.. I suspect that anaerobic digesters could be updated for increased production of specific gases, etc.Another keen thing about wastewater plant is the large scale size of the operation. Which means that the various stages of process, components and equipment are of size that makes them easy to see, monitor, and work with..
+Carl Lelandt Carl, do you work in this industry or have any experience with algae production?
The reason I ask is because I am pursuing a degree in Chemical Engineering and am currently looking for experience in this field. I'm extremely passionate about biofuels and would love to have the opportunity to learn more.
+Jake Hash I'm retired. My experience was in wastewater, in CA, bay area. Where ever you are, your state has some kind of water quality control board, look them up, and see if they offer a wastewater operator home study (correspondence or online). Take the course (very easy)..and they probably have lower division units for the course, at extra cost. The course will familiarize you with existing technology/processes. And some wastewater facilities will give you access for education/research, maybe even let you work part-time, etc. I recommend such experience. Many facilities have anaerobic digesters, and already do cogeneration from the captured/scrubbed methane, and still have too much methane. So excess is tanked, the rest just burned off. So your interest might focus on better utilization of methane, for use in powering an algae operation, using the digester CO2. Surplus methane runs generators than can supply energy for running proper spectrum lighting systems, and other energy demands from an algae operation. Most wastewater facilities have labs. Some have very sophisticated labs on-site. Algae research is presently trying to identify ideal strains, perhaps hybridize to maximize lipid amount, fast growth rate, etc. There are (unfortunately, expensive) books on Amazon, you might consider. Almost as important as the algal biocrude, is its non-lipid biomass with varying degrees of cellulosic amount/quality depending on the particular algae. Cellulosic biomass is a big resource for manufacturing, plastics, etc. Presently, research is in enzymes for quick (faster) processing of the biomass. A large wastewater facility with a bit of extra land space, could potentially produce a great amount of biocrude and valuable biomass. "Hands-on" experience in a wastewater facility would be very helpful, in coming up with designs for an algal operation that best matches up to the wastewater facility parameters.
+Carl Lelandt Jake, if you're in Calif., contact the Cal. State University;Sacramento, Dept. of Engineering, for Wastewater courses. The states of New York, California, Texas and Florida have the most universally recognized wastewater courses/certifications. (Certifications are licensure for working at the facilities). Another point to keep in mind. Wastewater facilities either use anaerobic digesters (simple, produce extra energy source, captured gases), or aerobic digesters (energy intensive). Facilities that use aerobic digesters, of course, wouldn't be the most ideal candidate for algal operations..-There's not a lot of easily accessible CO2, mainly, and no methane. As far as I'm concerned, bio-crude algal production combined with anaerobic wastewater operations is a chemical engineer's dream (and biofuel production potential dream). Glad to see you're on-board.
+Carl Lelandt Amazon books has used hardback copies of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" in the 1981 edition (green cover), for $4.98, plus $3.99 shipping. I recommend the old edition because it is more "old school chemistry" in chemical analysis. -Burners, distillation, titration, etc. Standard methods covers chemistry for anaerobic digester efficiency, all sorts of procedures for need-to-know determinations.
That's really good I love you efforts for the Mother Earth and the nature too
Did you miss that part where they were still using corn? That's ecological and economic suicide.
I live in the Midwest, corn is not a religion here, it is a business just like the rest of farming is it business. A smart farmer will raise or grow what brings him the most profit because farming is a business
It's just the most subsidized crop so it's pretty much insured. It destroys soil and is a pain in the ass to grow compared to many crops. Soy and corn are promoted through subsidies
Helps resolve food and energy crisis in the world. Good idea.
Nice thank you
Algae can and should be combined with corn as our way to reduce CO2 in the environment.
Fascinating
no, no, nooooooooooo
Awesome!!
Genius
The only reason we put so much emphasis on wind, solar, and battery power is because they all still involve mining. We could be the world leaders in environmentally correct fuels and products from algae. This is the one true green energy!
I work at a pea protein processing plant. We have lots of waste peas and hulls. Wonder if that'd be good at producing algae. I know outside when they get wet from rain they get moldy
How is the Algae development going now?
wow really great idea hope this catches on
nooooooo
nope :)
Growing Shiitake mushroom is my current favorite method of creating bio mass. Game?
Amazing...USA might have some pretty bad things but it has some pretty awesome things too!!!
Like technology etc...
you can find anything in usa.
Where are you from?
MAGA
That is about 27.5 tons per day. From 4 km2
3min. 40 tons per acre of algae few times per week. WOW!!!!
curiously, the Moss Pellets hace a huge potencial to even grow lants without pots
Is it still running?
Your algea is good but nothing compares to the Super blue green algae from Klammath falls. That algae has the best content because that algae only is found in that lake which has been around since the dinasours! It is the best algae in the world!
If the can make a lower cost machine for small scale production it would be good. It might introduce farmers and people to the idea and technology. A lot of places waste excess corn that doesn't meet the size requirements. A side hustle would be good. For human food use the taste would be a problem, even though it is healthy to eat.
Soylent Green.
Pacific NorthWest?? (Gravity falls flashbacks)
Soylent green is PEOPLE!
*Kewl!*
no, not cool at all. bad, bad for all water ecosystems and all life on earth
Who knew Henry Thoreau knew?
Add EM Dr. Teruo Higa's Effective Microorganisms. EMRO's TeraGanix.
OIL or ALCOHOL/Ethanol ?
This looks pretty water intensive and energy intensive. Do they reuse and protect the water resource, is it too good to be true?
no, this is corporate agenda, the water ecosystems are destroyed by algae farms. they cannot recover, this must be stopped
If you can keep it growing year round ! with collection system and some modifications to your home and car , all your utilities and fuel would be free ! ...except for the collection system and modifications to your house and vehicles. Blue green algae thrive on CO2 and make Hydrogen in very high amounts ! All these lakes and ponds where it's rampant ,I would collect it in pressurized black shipping containers ,collect the methane for a couple months then sell it for all of its bio fuels , shoot even get lakefront property owners to pay for removal ... like snow removal !
OR we could harvest the CO2 and heat from hydrocarbon fired electric power-plants and wastewater from sewage treatment plants to grow the algae nearly anywhere to produce MORE fuels and agricultural feed.
I DO like the benefit of extracting Omega fatty acids from algae rather than taking more fish oil though! :-)
hi..some help please ..DO you know which brokers offer Takion platform outside of US ; (thanks)
So you suggest we should eat something that lives of waist water & exhausts?
That sounds healthy!
Sion do not eat algae, please! you can develop thyroid disease in no time
You’re right, farmers also suggest eating crops which are grown in poop, eaten by insects, and left outside for months. You’d be a little quicker about all this if you’d quit your paint sniffing habit.
Algae is petrol source ?
Anything made from crude oil can be made from algae oil using the exact same process. Except the products made from algae are environmentally correct
Will using algae biofuel in vehicles still result in C02 been a byproduct?
Algae oil is carbon neutral
consumes more co2 and produces oxygen than it does produce co2 because of photosynthesis.
You can produce the same petrol and Diesel from algae oil. You don't need to convert the vehicles. They actually give off less emissions then. It's a purer cleaner fuel. You can make anything that you can make out of crude oil. Even plastic except the products break down completely rendering them environmentally correct
Growing Algae for replacing fossil fuel? Can fuel from algae produce more energy than was put to produce algae at all?
tons more. it uses sunlight, co2, and nitrogen to produce. or, waist water from poo poo plants.
That's the exact right question to ask.
Артём Маринченко The problem that still persists with fuel from algae is not whether its energy density or output-input ratio is high enough, but instead the decomposition thereof. Biofuel from algae oxidizes inherently, due to a lot of oxygen dissolved in the substance, where as oil from the earth has all the oxygen compressed out of it. On one side, the decomposition of algae fuel does damage the engines of machines, yet it won't lead to catastrophic oil spills as we have seen in the recent past.
Артём Маринченко algae farms are killing the ocean
Amanda Brower it's waste water though
Can the toxic algae be utilized? Through this we can control toxic algae and get fuel
Anindya Ghosh you can make biodiesel out of any kitchen waste or any plant without using algae. this is a corporate project to kill water ecosystems... so you will need to pay more for fresh water and food to them, because only the have equipment to solve the problem. we can use the wind and the sunshine to generate power and drive electric cars instead.. those do not pollute neither air nor water
@@musicbox2466 the only reason wind, solar, and battery power is being emphasized is because it still involves mining, it's all about the mining business. That's why everybody isn't rushing to support algae
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 anyone suggest any subsitute...and which is the best species of algae
Hello sir .
Can I get your contact number.
Interesting growing approach. I wonder if it would work as well with my cyanobacteria. (spirulina is not an algae or a plant - it is a bacteria, which is the only reason why I can legally grow it in the midwest where it is currently illegal to grow algae)
I bet it would
Why is it illegal to grow algae? Why is everything illegal!?!?
@@fusion9619 My best guess would be that since algae in pools is normally associated with a pool that isn't maintained properly it arose out of that. Maybe even at the behest of the chlorine lobby since it IS possible to have a healthy swimming pool based on aquatic plants and such.
I can understand why some things are illegal - public smoking, for example, isn't victimless when it harms others in your vicinity - but Algae? That never made any sense to me.
@@Elliandr wow, wasn't expecting a reply on a 4 yr old comment. Good reply, too, makes sense. Seems like most laws are just to protect some lobbying corporation.
Who know corn
we need to get rid of fossil fuels .....go algae....go...
:/
they kind of are still. If you burn it
Rajat Gupta noooooooooooo algae farms are killing the ocean faster than anything, use electric cars instead
music box how?
Ifaz Ahmer there's no time to explain in detail. :( water ecosystems are a single unity, much like a body and any changes on any level can be detrimental. we are clearing out shallow water coastal bottom, to plant algae, that qualify as a polluting factor. cutting the rest of the bottom off the coast by building these algae farm walls kills the food chains that were thriving there, so it kills animals and plants that made the ecosystem possible. and this affects the temperature and water quality, therefore, it changes the currents and the weather patterns and the climate, as well as the air quality as a consequence, because the ocean, particularly the coast-beach water is why we have all those things. if you think of the ocean as of a body, algae farms are the immobilizing factor. the rivers are the same. algae make water dead.
we can make bio diesel from ANY biomass, including your kitchen waste like peel and skins of fruit and vegetables. if you can make fuel out of any biomass, why grow corn to feed algae underwater to make fuel? it takes more time, more money, more resources, that are destroyed as a result. why not use that corn to make fuel in the first place? or look around and recycle what you already have instead of wasting time, money and resources to grow gmo corn. but, gmo corn will kill plants on land.
rich people want to destroy the planet to keep us in check.
I have some idea related to alage ,,, how I can contact with these people , can anyone help me ??
My eyes got big when they said cheaper gas!
Fascinating video and the potential of algae is undeniable but I would like to mention that algae is not the only profitable use of CO2. For one, CO2 can also be used in CO2 flooding which can lead to 15 to 20% increment in oil/gas recovery.
Use algae ➕ yeast ➕ sweet jaggery ➕ hydrogen
=petrol like solid fuel
Whole world doing this project
can it make regular gas or just bio diesel
+Eric Towet Basically anything.
Diesel is kind of the product at the earlier stages of refining, further refining gives you gas. To note Methanol is the product created from wastes other than plants, such as sewage, ethenal is from plants.
I am so confused by Methanol apparently it cant power an engine by it self
+Eric Towet I'm not so sure about that.. My opinion is that there's been way too much mainstream propaganda originating from the (big oil) establishment, to keep our population from becoming overly interested in alternative fuels production. As far as I know, combustion motors can be engineered to run on quite a wide range of hydrocarbon sources.
+Eric Towet So in a combined operation, where a (sewage) wastewater facility is dovetailed with an algae production operation, one would have both, in addition to the methane (sewage) digester gas. And I know from experience that methane gas, properly scrubbed and compressed, runs 1200 hp Cat engine generators just fine. which can power algae processes..
Eric Towet
yes, it can power a engine by itself, is is abrasive and hard on a engine systgem however.
Keep in mind none of this is new. technology at all. The great debate for what made the best combustion for a engine was decided in the mid 1800s. Ethanol lost out do to the usual crop nonsense which are subject to drought, poor harvest etc. Methanol lost out do to its abrasive nature. It also needs extremely high compression to run properly.
Both are commonly used in Dragsters do to their high ignition point.
Mixing of said fuel is common as gas does combust a bit better : )
I encourage you to research the history of Engines, it is quit fascinating .
Ahhh... But, as Charlton Heston said...
"SOYLENT GREEN... is made of People!"
Absolutely algae is one of the most powerful food and Energy source on the planet there is one big issue that needs to be addressed with this particular style of growing algae is that they’re using GMO corn for the beginning food source for the algae to start growing this is a massive issue that I hope gets to people and this company that’s growing it and other companies doing the same for all we know they may not be aware of GMO corn‘s but I would be shocked if they don’t so I would pay closer attention to where you get your products you may never no how they’re being cultivated
John Wheeler you look white, you should avoid algae because of your dna predispositions. your thyroid gland could fail unless you do not. also, algae farming is corporate project to kill water ecosystems. as a matter of fact, all kitchen waste, any part of corn plant or any other plant can be turned into biodiesel without using algae.
music box i’ve been consuming Spirulina algae for about four years now and I feel amazing it gives me masses amounts of energy and I know it’s draws all the toxins out of my system I think everybody should be consuming Algae on a regular basis to help pull the toxins and it is a complete protein one of the most powerful highest protein plant base foods you can consumed so I’m not sure about being white and not being able to consume it because of your DNA it really doesn’t make any sense algae is not biased it doesn’t look at you as if you’re a certain colour or race and your DNA doesn’t matter Algae is a universal super food for everybody
He is absolutely right!
There is indian worker in research 1:57
algae is awesome solution to hunger
no. I could just cry now. caucasian people cannot process iodine in such quanities and so frequently, so we develop thyroid disease. more importantly, algae farms are not ecofriendly, because they kill the water ecosystems faster than any pollution. do your bloody research, you are killing us all. to hell with vegans, you ignorant parasites.
@@musicbox2466 umm meat production is one of the leading causes of carbon emissions and deforestation we use much more land to feed livestock than any other food, and we only get a small percentage of calories from meat compared to eating the food directly.
KLAS
Algae provides the most amount of oxygen to us.
only one problem with this, how is this profitable for the oil and gas industry?
Hopefully they will find a way, because otherwise there will be a "problem" with this technology I am sure.
Yeah exactly.
ObsessionPC this project was launched by the same bastards that run the oil industry. there is no problem with it, because it is just as ridiculous as the oil industry and coal mining. why not make bio diesel on land using any plant, when you can destroy the water ecosystems now that you are happy with the pollution amount in the atmosphere? end the seasons climate and pure water, exterminate animals, kill the ocean and prevent the planet from cooling and cleansing, so everyone will come to you for food and air and water. after they are done fighting wars for clean water.
look this shit up, india and brasil will have nothing but gmo in as little as 15 years, it has already started.
4:10 convert algae into oil? so we are back to oil again?
It's useful for airplanes and spaceships. We don't want to run out of that stuff.
bruh.
first off.
this wouldn't waste the resources of mother earth, we could create oil instead of taking the source that already exists and that is almost running out of oil
second.
We could enhance it to be less pollutant in any way we want.. you can't do that with finished oil
yea im sure your a fan of Elon musk but did you know his spaceships actually use fuel not batteries?oh also did you know batteries are toxic hmmmm
First Law of Thermodynamics you cannot create matter or energy. If you are turning algae into oil that's not a problem because you'll use CO2 from the atmosphere. Oil is not bad but fossil fuel is.
The oil is not the problem. The problem is that soccermoms drive a ford f150 40 miles just to save 50 cent on cornflakes.
Where is the duckweed? This is algae.
Why not produce (bio)ethanol from algae directly? The "corn" part of this process is, apart from a bottleneck, a great inefficiency at all manners; It creates soil degradation, needs vast amounts of fertilizers and water but also needs time, space and labor in an extreme extent comparatively with algae. That is because algae has a much better photosynthetic efficiency than most plants, definitely better than corn; to wit, algae absorbs much more of the sun's energy than other plants.
Algae is just regular crude oil. All the oil in the world comes from ancient algae
But the amount of energy being used for manufacturing oil out of algae through means of high heat and pressure seems way counter productive in terms of volume.
Christopher Kinney Not to mention the large amounts of water being used, while nearly 21% of the world doesn't have water to drink. Maybe.
Christopher Kinney Well, waste water can simply be reused. But I agree that producing high pressure and heat can be very costly which can leave this whole project with little to no margin
Christopher Kinney Read my comment on use of wastewater for algae-to-oil (biocrude) production.
Christopher Kinney the heat I noticed you said would counter act profit but it actually uses waste heat so they are not heating by heaters
Isaac Dean Heat demand is accommodated by either burning the surplus methane directly with a boiler/heat-exchanger loop, and/or indirectly by power generated from methane generators. Old technology. Generators can be multi-carb'ed for flexibility, such as isolating methane system for maintenance, hence generators would run on stored methane or diesel or natural gas. Old tech.
And here I had come to the conclusion that oil came from pine trees. As flammable as dried pine is plus pine tar. I just arrived at that conclusion. And I'mma sticking to it.
They just think it's algea because it had grown on some pine trees.
Jeff Bingaman oil is any biomass, but we should not use it. electricity is the solution that won't harm any life
music box i think electric is a major part of the solution. However alcohol fuels are excellent and if cars optimally utilize alcohol fuels, they would get more power and better mpg than gasoline and since they burn cleanly you wouldn't need to change the oil nearly as much... I'm not sure how reliable electric motors are long term. A well made ice engine can last a million miles if taken care of. Also the cost of the battery will always be a big burden to electric cars vs fuel led cars imo.
Insoo Kim I think it is just a matter of time. if they can make nano chips with huge data storage, they can make light and durable electric car batteries we could switch anywhere as easily as we do the tv remote ones. Those are simple mechanisms, easy to repair too. and engine life expectancy must not be an excuse. Nothing is more difficult to put up with than polluted air and water.
LOL good Kek.
@@iskdude9922 brushless electric motors have no moving parts exept for the output shaft and they pretty much cat break if they are protected from overheating, tho the baerings hmight have to be replaced every 50 years or so
NO OFFENCE BUT I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND A THING. IT'S TO COMPLICATED
that is because they do not want you to understand. you can use any bio mass, any part of any plant to make biodiesel on land. so, instead of doing that, you pick healthy and strong men to inhale toxic fossil particles after hard labour deep underground to bring those toxins to all life. then, once you are happy with the amount of pollution in the atmosphere, you attack water ecosystems, by having algae in areas that are crucial to all ecosystems cleansing and hydration: the shoreline and the shallow water. once those are fed gmo and polluted, we will not have clean water, a living ocean, atmosphere or the seasons. this means no food, or we will completely depend on these people that came up with both this project and the oil industry for food and water and clean air. it is a family business. buy an electric car and use solar and wind power to charge your machines
Hopefully organic corn not GMO
or we could just use places like georgia, louisiana, and alabama, mississippi to grow biofuels namely sugarcane. rotationally ... just saying
MsTokies Those states are ideal biomass producing regions for all kinds of biomass value plants, as you say. -Water hyacinth, kudzu, etc..
Carl Lelandt to bad they can't get there act together and realize they are sub tropical.
algae for biofuels,oil,fertilizer and some food.......but hemp's best for paper,bioplastics,rope textile etc
Oil is phosphorus fume from the equator.
Nope
Here we go again.
Another miracle fuel. A little homework and you'll find that this will be a very expensive fuel to use. Picture filling up your vehicle at $40 a gallon with the same fuel economy.
grow hemp fool, that's what henry ford say.
I lean more to electric vehicles but hemp and algae derived biodiesel can go a long way to solving issues of climate change and pollution. Besides it keeps money out of the hands of regimes that fund terrorism. Internal combustion vehicles will be on the road for easily another ten years. By that time conventional easy to get inexpensive oil would have peaked.
Wind, solar, and battery power is not the answer. They are not actually green Energy's. They still involve a lot of destructive mining. It's all about the mining industry
Did he say waste water?? 😲😷😝
Recycled grey water ..
Producing more oil is not a solution to fosil fuel problem. Co2 is not the only bad thing coing out ouf your car exhaust.
Trinity preach! this project was designed to kill water ecosystems dead within a decade. spread the word.
Mr Jr Hi, I don't mean to be rude, but, are you serious? I'm not yelling, just checking
Bio oil does not have contaminate problem that fossil fuels do they lack all the trace minerals and sulfur.
She's an indian woman at 1:56
RowdyFellow is she an Indian woman at any other time ? 😂
alge gas would cost $1,000 per gallon
Bull shit they have made biodiesel at 1 dollar a gallon so fractionally distilling it would not cause a great price increase.
co2 is not a pollutant. beer is a profitable use of co2 so is dry ice
circusboy90210 yes sir. Also the huge amounts of soda sold hourly .
It's also the element that all plants need to survive. We need more CO2 in the atmosphere if anything.
+HeartlandRanchTV MORE? Are you serious? If anything, we have to lower it. Plants do need it, but the level present in our atmosphere is way more than plants need to live. Plants did well before the industrialization too and the CO2 released by nature is enough for good plant growth.
@@heartlandranchtv4943 that was the dumbest thing I read all week...
@@korpakukac Sorry you feel that way
And, here in India 99% of people do not even know about these things happening in the world......
GMO for all
once the water creatures are fed gmo and fail to reproduce and die out, the ocean will fail and we will no longer have the atmosphere or the seasons and only the corporations will have the means to provide food and water. welcome to the new world order
music box I don’t see any reason why any of what you just said could possibly make any sense. Why would marine life become sterile after consuming GMOs?
Joe Smith Sorry Mr Troll, i do not time for this.
@@joesmith4546 the same reason humans do
@@hippieJOSH420 Can you cite any peer reviewed papers that reach this conclusion? I consume plenty of GMO products, and I am not sterile.
***CERTIFIED OXYGEN PRODUCER***
series people think use that brain there's over fishing and corn oil is not good either people think other food companys know that one's this sells they are in trouble cus its cheaper better and of course your wallet is ganna thank you!
5+ alternative fuels, worlds still fighting over oil. typical humans.
That is a lot of plastic.
They’ll find a way to may algae gmo. So many today have glutton, lactose, and peanut Allergies, I can’t wait to see how many algae related allergies there will be. What a hoot.
Let the butt hurt comments begin.
pls don't use gmos
Can everyone stop. Yes there are problems with this no one is hiding that BUT.......There are far more and far worse problems as a result of using traditional fuels. We will never have a perfect fuel, with excellent energy efficiency, low costs and being largely renewable. That’s a fact. But this biofuel shows some promising factors. And who ever said that we are solving the oil issue by making more oil needs to check their facts. The main difference is that the oil from algae is ‘naturally occurring’ and renewable.
WHY are you growing GMO corn, soybeans, endless other foodstuffs ? which are POISON + Bill Gates will end up in jail.
How is this funded? We have nearly increased our CO2 levels by 50% since pre-industrial levels, yet we are still below the peak temperatures that occurred during the last 4 inter-glacial periods. CO2 levels at around 1/25th of 1% are too low to affect climate much; it does affect the rate at which biomass is growing.
Frank Mueller Carbon dioxide is probably found more commonly in the troposphere where it is easily available to plants. This is because carbon dioxide is a heavier gas than nitrogen or oxygen. So most of that 0.04% (1/25th of 1%) is concentrated in more or less the first 12km of the atmosphere
so it's 7.44 miles
Frank Mueller, the glaciers are part of what's holding the temperatures down now, but they are melting away. Think! Think!
Your e those is about making money not to help and make this planet any better but is to always make money
all the oil in the ground is produced in a matter of hours and day's not millions of years
circusboy90210 how could that possibly make any sense. Enlighten me, I clearly know less than someone who can’t write in English better than the vast majority of non native English users and who thinks he knows better than the vast majority of geologists who are concerned with that topic.
Turning it into oil is stupid. That's not how you go green.
Valueless Dollar Most importantly it is killing the ocean!!!
its not the best since it dosnt take co2 from the atmosphere but it helps us by not adding any more into the atmosphere. The thing with oil is that were digging up carbon that is trapped and setting it free while this method takes co2 in the air and gives it to the algae and then it is put back into the air so it kinda keeps the status quo
Why TF are they wasting arable land to do this with corn? It's just a lightbulb turning party.
Fry nice place sale me your dughter please foget
Growing corn for feed to grow algae to feed humans and find an alternative source for their energy and oil or fuel and biomass needs.
Stop the stupidity and grow hemp, people.
***** It's probably a little too useful for it's own good. It's a threat to the profit of too many industries and corporations. But the US is one of relatively few nations to make hemp cultivation illegal, and one of the very last to lift the ban. Some US states have already passed legislation allowing production and are in their 2nd year of legalized cultivation. We're making progress. Money is people's main motivation, and there's just too much new money to be made in the hemp industry for the people with the old money to forever hold back progress.
+Michael Lance Hemp is a crop, as such it needs area as well as is susceptible to droughts, fires, etc.
To be fair so is Corn, which is a horrible supposed "Clean energy" source as it is.
Bottom line, for hemp to produce the same amout of oil as Algae it would take the entire US.
For Algae to replace oil completely in the US (and this is a feat) It would need an area the size of Michigan.
SlayerofFiction Growing a crop as food for a secondary crop *to make food for humans makes no sense. They said the algae is a good source of omega 3 fatty acids. Well, so is hemp seed. In fact, it's one of the ultimate sources. And I have a hard time believing this algae is a better source of oil for energy, either. Especially considering the energy that is required to grow the corn as food for the algae in the first place. I'll have to research that. Maybe you can save me the trouble and provide a link?
Seems the only sensible reason for producing algae over hemp, is growing hemp is still illegal in places they grow the corn and algae. And that really isn't sensible at all.
*****
Of course it makes no sense to you as you do not know otherwise.
Do some research then get back to me :)
Hemp has its uses mind you, but oil is not one of them. Now keep in mind that Hemp is used to grow oil which is used in the lotion/perfume industry. However there are different grades of oil, and the oil produced from hemp is basically a garbage oil that does not yield the same as a true crude type oil. In other words, its refining and enegy output are poor and unrealistic.
Smoke the shit as much as you want, even make paper from it, but it is not good for much else, despite the nonsense propaganda.
+Michael Lance I'm all for growing hemp, too! You seem to have it in your mind that to do one, would require not doing another? My opinion is that there's all kinds of stuff that can be grown. There need be no excluding of something that's beneficial and has good economics, as well.
no one spoke about the amount of tax money these guys get to buy wine and cars and stuff. stop letting the ceos trick you lemmings
If you add inclusion into this play you could go far.
Quality not quantity.
Stupid waste of effort. To fix a problem they invented