extracting power from plants?

[nightlife]

I just got in from a long day and I was unable to go out back and check the wires for power. I will try again tomorrow. Sorry.

[triffid]

I just wanted to spread the word here .Some guy near  El Paso ,Texas figured out a way to get 100,000gallons of  biodiesel per acre by growing algae in vertical structures using plastic bags.It turns out that some algae species are 50%oil(dry weight).His name is Glen Kertz.He is president and ceo of Vacent products.In contrast you get 30 gallons oil per acre corn.Thought I would spread the good news here.I saw this yesterday on cnn.com and it really made my day!!!Triffid

[Scorpile]

Yes... Algae are the future of biodiesel, that are old news.  You can get more biodisel because algae are almost entirely oil, they grow up in something like 6 months depending of the specie of algae, and some other technical fact that makes algae the right path for biodiesel.

Here in my work, we have a 10,000 gallon biodiesel plant we bought, and we use "acid fats"... and belive me there are not many people extracting biodiesel from that.  We use a 50% blend of biodiesel and diesel and the cost dropped by half with all our trucks and logistic expenses.

The problem with algae is that currently there are not cheap or easy methods for normal people to make grow enough algae for biodiesel.  So would be nice in this thread to find a good method for that so everyone can learn to grow algae.

[triffid]

Yes they will to find some method that is dirt cheap to make biodiesel.I read that the us was experimenting with algae over 18 years ago and now coming back to take another look at it.It still
made my day(the article).triffid

[triffid]

Most of the time I read only about the protein in algae.Never that there were oils in certain species of algae until last week.I used to grow jars of algae around the house when I was a kid.I started two jars over the weekend.It should lead to some interesting experiments?triffid