List member John Harris in Australia was trying to do it three years ago but I don't think he got very far, if he had I'm sure we'd have heard about it.
Andrew Lowe posted this message: > Forget the algae. At the moment it is not worth it. You require >huge amounts of land, huge amounts of infrastructure and then the >ability to actually grow the little beggers. Oh I forgot to mention, >which one do you use? There are many thousands of stains of >algae but only a few have been looked at. > > Like a lot of other people on this list I was fired up about algae, >spent some time in the Uni library, had my biochemist wife >decipher some things for me and came away with the conclusion >that it will require quite a bit of PhD level research and then big $$$ >for the setup before it can go ahead. Whilst algae do multiply >rapidly thay are a lot harder to grow than corn/canoloa/wheat etc. > > Regards, > Andrew Lowe Best Keith >Not really feasible right now....but... > >It will be interesting to look at again in CO2 capture form coal >burning power station projects, once carbon trading gets established. > >Edward Beggs >http://www.biofuels.ca > >On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 08:09 PM, kavitha palaniappan wrote: > > > > > I have been seeing articles on the net about producing biodiesel from > > oil obtained from algae. Is it really feasible on the grounds of > > cost, quality and quantity? If any one of you'll had tried this out, > > kindly reply to this mail, as I'm very much interested in it. > > > > Kavitha. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Your own Online Store Selling our Overstock. http://us.click.yahoo.com/rZll0B/4ftFAA/46VHAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
