BTW, since the plant/algae oils have 14 or more (CH2) units plus the C3H5 glyceryl unit they can be thermally cracked to gasoline, possibly easier than doping transesterfication.
One might "Cat Crack" the algae in a roasting oven set to "Broil". Fred Jones Beene wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I've heard of bacteria eating oil...has bacteria been engineered > > to excrete oil? > > > The hottest area of biodiesel R&D is Algae-based. > > Without getting too fine a distinction, Algae and bacteria are > both single-celled and so close that who cares about the > difference ? > > Most curious - in the semantics of this - is that technically, one > prime candidate organism for biodiesel is not a true algae - that > is what is commonly referred to as blue-green algae - which is a > cyanobacteria. > > So the answer is yes - bacteria/algae is the true future of > biodiesel - because in most cases we are not doing the morally > reprehensible thing - which is substituting food crops for energy. > > In fact - if there is an oil-nut that produces 35% diesel oil, > then even the 65% of waste can serve as the "food" for bacteria in > order to give a yield of near 100% of the total biomass. > > Hopefully. >
