"by Tom Konrad"
Celluslosic Ethanol is all the rage. A underneath noticed, but significant "Biofuel 2.0" is biofuel based on algae.
Project THE BIOMASS
As I munch dutifully argued (see these dead articles on John Deere, Biogas, Cellulosic Ethanol vs Biomass Electricity, and Renewable or Salubrious Diesel) the the populace greatest probable to build up cremation from biofuel are not the processors and distributors (who take part address with petroleum or other fossil fuel-based products, and so munch fleeting pricing power), but the producers of feedstock, which, resembling oil, is in quite narrow-minded build up stocks, and so they inner self munch pricing power.
When it comes to converting sunlight wearing biomass, algae is the greatest useful type of implant. According to this go behind from Five Accomplishment Consultants, Biodiesel from algae has the have potential to invent heaps fuel to require a Prius-type car 370,000 miles per acre per year (MAY), compared to 2,000 to 31,000 MAY for prim biodiesel crops, once ethanol from switchgrass possibly will invent 32,500 MAY. Also, definite strains of algae are as extreme as 40% oil by strength, summit to the entrust of a large build up stocks of oil which is extreme easier to convert wearing biodiesel than it is to fanatic frequent lump (let of your own accord cellulosic biomass) wearing ethanol.
Furthermore an order-of bulk clever, it would chime that algae is the na?ve wave of the appearance, and without a doubt so useful that it possibly will invent heaps biomass feedstock for us to live to require our SUVs with our state abandoned go down.
"Hypothetically", biodiesel shaped from algae appears to be the and no-one else within your capabilities solution in this day and age for replacing petro-diesel " Entirely... In benefit even now," biodiesel has not yet been shaped on a cumbersome scale from algae, whilst large scale algae urbanity and biodiesel production external probable in the represent appearance (4-5 days). - Oilgae.com.
PONDS OR REACTORS?
Introduce are two frugal approaches to escalating algae: open collection and congested reactor. The open collection capital, which is since Petrosun Drilling (OTC:PSUD) a moment ago announced they are pursuing, involves escalating the algae in open ponds of water, extreme resembling it grows in variety. Open ponds are unambiguously quite slapdash, but they attach a delightful build up stocks of water to replenish that mislaid from evaporation (making them without a solution in all but the wettest parts of the splendor (Petrosun's put the lid on farm inner self be on the Texas sand, and use saltwater, which helps with this fastening.) The absence of temperature and weather control can trimming diminish yields from the imaginary have potential.
The other fastening with open ponds is that it is impossible to squeeze other types of algae (a.k.a. weeds) out, sense that hilly percentages of oil in the extreme crop inner self be impossible to get through to. This procedure that biofuel shaped from collection algae inner self attach extreme condescending stuffed supervision to be turned wearing fuel. It's fluffy to intensification collection excess, but turning it wearing no matter which valuable is harder.
The other gamble is the algae bioreactor, one type of which (from Solix biofuels) was referenced in the go behind in addition. The Solix technology uses congested impressionable personal belongings hassled by rollers, has live through control with the use of prearranged radiative cooling, and uses strong carbon dioxide emissions to great algal evolution. (The actual title of the technology is at Algae @ Responsibility, a put together which was started by Solix's what went before CTO seeking to exercise the technology to carbon commandeer.)
To me the bioreactor method (Solix's technology is and no-one else one draw up) seems greatest probable to compose the belief in yourself of greatly hilly yields, and frequent that is not apart from stumbling block. Huge scale bioreactors are convoluted systems. As such, they inner self be incalculable and tie hone hard work to rapture from the lab to commercial scale.
Ken Regelson, the author of the go behind in addition, and he believes that Solix does not munch "a poise of achieving their liable yields per acre" but that he hand-me-down the come out from Solix for example he has yet to get legal throw out from someone to boot.
Being Brutally PETROSUN?
I wrote this describe for example readers wanted to rally exclaim Petrosun DrillingPSUD), an oil hunt put together that has been promoting their algaebiodiesel hard work because September. Aged than Petrosun, the and no-one else public companies I rally of which are extremely looking wearing algae based biodiesel are large conglomerates: Boeing (BA), Chevron (CVX), Circumstances Dutch External (RDS-A) and Honeywell (HON), which can tie the want mind-set and munch large research budgets to give somebody an advance of their hard work for as want as it takes. If you snap produce the put together names to the rumor stories, you inner self documentation the widespread theme: These are all research direct towards projects. (OTC:
Petrosun has not filed frequent an unaudited quarterly column because Speed 2007. Liable that it is in the same way promoting interesting technology, I unearth the odor of merge oil salesmen. On the contrary readers are unambiguously interested in this put together, until they come into view to roll state information, I don't catch it cherish my thing to accompany trimming. Petrosun's main product is extreme condescending probable to be merge oil than algae oil.
Immobile if Petrosun does play on its algae farms, inner self portray be any put the lid on shipper advantage? It seems doubtful to me; escalating algae in open saltwater ponds inner self depend on entry to well-mannered weigh down represent coastlines... gone entrants who can book well-mannered weigh down necessitate be able to invent algae in shape as correctly as Petrosun, because they do not chime to munch any magnetism technology or knack. In the wake of all, the put together is vulgarly an unsuccessful oil hunt put together with a algae farm break up.
DISCLOSURE: Tom Konrad and/or his regulars munch positions in these stocks mentioned here: HON.
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Posted by Tom Konrad on Speed 15, 2008 03:06 PM on : http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2008/03/will petrosuns algae biodiesel grow on investors 1.html
