On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:38:14PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >Algae might be better. 20-fold higher yields? > > But do burning algae have the property of (relatively) emission-free energy?
It's sulfur free, and if it's dry and finely-dispersed modern burners could do it quite nicely. But the interesting part is the oil content http://www.oilgae.com/algae/oil/yield/yield.html Plant oil in general + 10% methanol, and a catalyst (lye would do) gives you biodiesel by umesterung. There's an organism which will directly give you diesel (no bio) ersatz by hydrogenation. Getting this out is a problem, though a far lesser one than harvesting. What is even more interesting is use of microalgae in photoreactors for closed-loop ecosystems. Anyone who can build a stable minimal closed-loop ecosystem has the solar system served on a platter. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
