Algae As Resource for Bio-Fuel
In January of this year, at a meeting of the Engineers Club of Sun City, Arizona. A.P.S. ( the local power company) gave a presentation in which they explained their plans to build a vertical biomass plant using algae south of Phoenix , below Gila Bend. They were very upbeat about it's possibilities.
Take a look at this video and pay particular attention to the very last statement made by the spokesman. http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html
As per comments made previously, I have no equity or connection with this company, though not sure it matters if I did. I am an avid advocate of sustainable solutions and innovations and this one caught my eye.
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Comments (8)
wow RP! now you are deleteing comments you don't like...including your own?
Comment #1 Posted by: Anonymous | July 10, 2008 10:46 AM
No, that wasn't the case. Jeff Grant asked if I was selling this, I responded and it put in my comment before I was complete with it and then twice accidentally, so I started over and addressed Jeff's question in the post.
Comment #2 Posted by: Raymond | July 10, 2008 10:55 AM
aho, Raymondo!
Jim Mora, a technical-whiz, has just created his first batch of biodiesel. Anyone who wants to join in, or learn how to do so can leave a message for him mornings at West Campus, 649-9218, where he is a volunteer.
We also have the Biodiesel Coop Truck out there, for those who want to join the Ventura Biodiesel Coop, or any Service Station owner who wants information on adding a Biodiesel pump to their gas and diesel pump lineup.
Mitakuye Oyasin, for all our relations.
Comment #3 Posted by: MTwain | July 10, 2008 11:31 AM
有道 出人!!
Comment #4 Posted by: Anonymous | July 10, 2008 01:52 PM
I have a bad feeling about bio-fuel per se. Does everything, including plants and humble algae have to serve the beast of gas-guzzling consumerism. My head's an idiot but sometimes my gut's more in tune.
Comment #5 Posted by: Anonymous | July 10, 2008 01:58 PM
My head's an idiot but sometimes my gut's more in tune.
Love that comment! Exactly how I often feel.
Comment #6 Posted by: LTOR | July 10, 2008 03:31 PM
dead frogs make great biomass, and fish and birds, and snakes and lizards ... and all those redundant citizens and their unwanted children ...
Comment #7 Posted by: Mansanto | July 10, 2008 04:38 PM
Tonight during a dinner in Santa Barbara I struck up a conversation with a young man and amazingly he is involved with global strategic design plans to develop algae bio-mass fuel technology. It turns out they can use gray and black water to feed the algae who can digest the waste and turn it into plant oils. According to him it's being kept pretty quiet but the government is really behind rolling out this technology and implementing it. There is a beta test site being engineered for California on a landfill that is closing and they are going to use the waste and bio-organisms to createa slurry that will feed the algae.
Comment #8 Posted by: Raymond | July 11, 2008 01:03 AM