This technology may be the only way to produce sufficient quantities of fuel for our vehicles. At this time the extraction is expensive ($1.80 per litre see wikipedia) placing the resulting fuel as uneconomical. But the plant in Alicante (video Française) claims to produce at $20 per barrel because they make a great deal of money on the other by-products "pétrole bleu" .Thanks for a great link Garry. Steve.
As demonstrated here, microalgae appear to be the only source of renewable biodiesel that is capable of meeting the global demand for transport fuels. Like plants, microalgae use sunlight to produce oils but they do so more efficiently than crop plants. Oil productivity of many microalgae greatly exceeds the oil productivity of the best producing oil crops. Biodiesel from microalgae. [Biotechnol Adv. 2007 May-Jun] - PubMed result
Algae cultivation for CO2 sequestration - Oilgae - Oil from Algae
Algae oils have a variety of commercial and industrial uses, and are extracted through a wide variety of methods. Estimates of the cost to extract oil from microalgae vary, but are likely to be around $1.80 (US$)/kg (compared to $0.50 (US$)/kg for palm oil).[8]
Algaculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ScienceDirect - Biotechnology Advances : Biodiesel from microalgae
- Introduction to How Algae Biodiesel Works
- What Makes Biodiesel From Algae So Exciting?
- Algae Biodiesel Engineering: Extracting Oil from Algae
- Growing Algae for Biodiesel Use
- The Pros and Cons of Algae Biodiesel
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