Re: Beer brewery boosts algae-based biodiesel? Brilliant!

Yes, I heard talk of cytoculture for oil production while up at a  
Cold Weather Biofuel workshop in Seattle. Some of the bio folks up  
there are working on a grant to build such an algae colony  
contraption. Sounds weird but cool and if the claims are true, the  
oil yield from algae would be much higher than food crop yields.

There was also talk of a company in Japan working on an alternative  
catalyst to lye, based on sugar molecules.

http://watthead.blogspot.com/2005/11/new-inexpensive-and-efficienct- 
organic.html

On Dec 13, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Chad Patteson wrote:

>   "Solix Biofuels Inc., a startup company based in Boulder, is
> working with Colorado State University engineers to commercialize
> technology that can cheaply mass produce oil derived from algae and
> turn it into biodiesel..."
>   "Colorado State [University] and Solix officials are collaborating
> with New Belgium Brewing Co. to use excess carbon dioxide from the
> brewery's plant to test the algae-based biodiesel process."
>   ""With algae, we can get 7,000 to 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel per
> acre per year," Willson says. "We get only 50 to 100 gallons per acre
> per year with canola or soy.""
>
> Some technical details and picts:
> http://welcome.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=programs_algae
>
> Dec 7 Press Release:
> http://www.newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp? 
> url=news_item_display&news_item_id=373795755
>
> Also:
> http://solixbiofuels.com/
>
> -chad
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