Hi Darryl
http://industry.bnet.com/energy/10004073/researchers-plug-into-algae-for-solar-power/
I suspect the closing of the article is the likely outcome, and this
won't come to commercial fruition, but I like it better than the algae
oil story.
So do I - indeed it ends better than it starts: what be
Reasearchers? Well, never mind.
Then there's this, in Japan:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20100422n1.html
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Scientists try algae 'alchemy' to cultivate oil
More sensible than many, with a target date of 2022, and I'm sure
it's excellent grant bait in the meantime.
I just had a message from Mike Pelly with a pointer to this story:
http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/mudroom/greenville/2010/04/Olympia-Green-Fuels-LLC-algae/
Mostly about algae, and it says: Boeing and other aircraft companies
have already flown planes on fuel made from algae.
That's a gross exaggeration, but it's based on fact - in January last
year, a Continental Airlines jet flew on a mix of jet fuel and
jatropha oil that also included 6 % algae-based fuel. Also in
January, Japan Airlines flew a jet using a mixture that included 1 %
algae-based fuel.
That's also an exaggeration - the JAL plane only used the biofuel in
the No.3 engine, and it was only 50 % biofuel, consisting of camelina
(84%), jatropha (under 16 %), and algae (under 1 %). That's a maximum
of 0.125 % algae oil for all four engines, proving not very much.
The Continental flight was with a twin-engined Boeing 737-800, and
again it was only 50 % biofuel, and only in one engine, so the
proportion of algae oil was 3 % at most, or probably only 1.5 %.
Anyway it's progress, more impressive than the single test-drive
round the block which was the only example we had of algae oil
powering anything bigger than a test-tube and flights of fancy.
Regards
Keith
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Darryl McMahon
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http://www.econogics.com/TENHE/
Journey to Forever reviews The Emperor's New Hydrogen Economy
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html#tenhe
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