jan i may be wrong (and i probably am) but i have been studying this one a bit and i believe the feeding you are talking about is when you use a closed tube type breeder reactor to grow the algae in and there are experiments using exhaust from sources already producing the c02 not necc creating ones to feed it, in that aspect i believe that anything that would remove c02 emmisions from something already producing it,, industrial power plants incinerators etc would potentially be a net loss of carbon there are also experimennts in open pond cultivation where the algae does not have to be fed, the drawbacks to this are that the good oil producing strains of algae get contaminated by other species that dont produce near as much oil im hoping this has potential it seems one of the biggest hurdles now is cultivating and proccessing the algae without consuming more energy than is produced seems to be quite a bit of work going on in this field a lot of info can be found at oilgae.com have a good day kelly> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:32:40 +0430> Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fuel from Algae??> > Hello Doug et al. There are two major concern signs about biodiesel from > algae oil:> 1) The algae have to be "fed" with CO2 during growth. If this CO2 comes from > fossile sources, you have achieved almost nothing.> 2) The oil from algae is highly unsaturated. This makes it difficult to have > the biodiesel meet the EN norm and other standards.> > Jan Warnqvist> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org>> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:38 AM> Subject: [Biofuel] Fuel from Algae??> > > > Hi,> > I ran into a chap travelling around Australia extolling the virtues of> > running on SVO.> > He is to email me more details, but apparently there is a project in> > Australia involved with oil from Algae, aparently using CO2 feedstock from> > generation equipment.> > I googled to try to find more info, but only found foreign references from> > ~2005. Has anyone heard anything about this project?> >> > regards Doug> >> > _______________________________________________> > Biofuel mailing list> > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org> > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel> >> > Biofuel at Journey to Forever:> > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html> >> > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 > > messages):> > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/> > > > > _______________________________________________> Biofuel mailing list> Biofuel@sustainablelists.org> http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel> > Biofuel at Journey to Forever:> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html> > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages):> http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself wherever you are. Mobilize! http://www.gowindowslive.com/Mobile/Landing/Messenger/Default.aspx?Locale=en-US?ocid=TAG_APRIL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20080427/02105498/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
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