Sounds something like this company I've been following for a while... http://www.sapphireenergy.com
... based in the US. Their process uses algae to make 'crude oil' which can then be refined in the normal way to make diesel, petrol etc. They have just announced a tie-up with the big Chinese oil company Sinopec. MW On 12 Jul 2014, at 06:41, Dennis Miles via EV wrote: > FYI the person I was speaking to from S.Korea said they were producing the > Methanol from fermentation of algae. > > Dennis Lee Miles (EVprofessor) > > > > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Jan Steinman via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Robert Bruninga <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> But, our friends in South Korea use Methanol and not Natural gas as the >>> feedstock for the hydrogen. >> >> Methanol is typically synthesized via steam reformation of natgas. So >> hydrogen from methanol is just an intermediate step from natgas. >> >> It is possible to use biological processes to make methanol, but I don't >> believe it is widely done, as it would be very much more expensive than >> using natgas as a feedstock. >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140712/099ff1b9/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
