I just got a response back from the Michigan crew: It's the same process with the addition that it is made continuous rather than batch. No one had any doubt that the process could be made continuous -- its straight forward process engineering -- but there just hadn't been a publication in the open literature.
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:37 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW: For a humorous insight into the DoE grant process, the UofMI > technology was paired with the aforementioned biomass production technology > in the proposal to the DoE's Algaoleum initiative but the proposal was > rejected. The reason given for rejecting the proposal was that the biomass > production technology (Algasol's patented photobioreactor) it was prone to > contamination of the algae species. > > For the punch-line, here is an excerpt from that proposal: > > "Structurally, the PBRs are enclosed flexible bags made out of polymer > film... the Algasol PBRs are inherently independent of each other; each can > serve as its own laboratory vessel." > > > I mean, come on.... > > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:16 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Indeed, it was the U of Michigan crew. >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Was this old story related to the grant in question ? >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100422153943.htm >>> >>> >>> >>> Not sure how this “new” technology from PNNL is very different. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* James Bowery >>> >>> >>> >>> Coincidentally I had just, literally a minute ago, sent off a query >>> about this PNNL work to some coinvestigators in a grant proposal to the DoE >>> for the production of biocrude because the PNNL process sounded so similar, >>> I wanted to find out if there was any distinction. >>> >>> >>> >>> The biggest problem remains the sufficiently economic production of >>> biomass -- and to the best of my knowledge after looking at that problem >>> for the past 20 years -- there is only one technology capable for that. >>> >>> >>> >>> Brad Lowe wrote: >>> >>> Some links: >>> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131218100141.htm >>> >>> http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/18/Scientists-Manufacture-Crude-Oil-The-End-of-Peak-Oil >>> http://www.genifuel.com/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
