Exciting new energy source???

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This looks really interesting...

thats crazy....who would have thought...algae

Cool Video, thanks for sharing. Algae who woulda thought.

Sure beats trying to use our own food sources! :yes:

extremely interesting give that guy a cigar he deserves it :)

wow.. that was very interesting.. wonder if that ever comes in to effect and we start pumping algea...lol

This is nothing new, they've known about this and have been doing it for many many years. Just no one cared because gas use to be $0.89 a gallon.

It sounds like it's a more viable option that soybeans or corn, but they still never mentioned any statistics on cost effectiveness. Sounds pretty interesting.

That will be the big thing cost effectiveness, I wonder how this is gonna turn out. Very interesting. Nice find.

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Originally Posted by tigerlily

It sounds like it's a more viable option that soybeans or corn, but they still never mentioned any statistics on cost effectiveness. Sounds pretty interesting.

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Well it can't really be worse than corn. Last I checked corn was about the worst thing you could use to make bio-fuel out of. Yet for some odd reason the US government is determined to do it.

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Originally Posted by m00kfu

Well it can't really be worse than corn. Last I checked corn was about the worst thing you could use to make bio-fuel out of. Yet for some odd reason the US government is determined to do it.

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I heard that they are now focusing on harvest leftovers instead of corn for biomass fermentation, algae is a much better idea though.

Man i wish i was that smart.

thanks for the Vid boss! :D

I heard we have other fuel resources and that we don't use them because t he oil companies don't want to loose money/.

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Originally Posted by Wh00h0069

I heard that they are now focusing on harvest leftovers instead of corn for biomass fermentation, algae is a much better idea though.

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Whether it's leftovers or not, it's still HIGHLY ineffecient. If I remember right, you can get about 6x as much fuel out of sugar cane than you can out of corn. There is also another company out there that is working on making bio fuel out of compost heaps very efficiently using bacteria. Last I heard they were pretty close to opening a production plant.