Re: pdx-biodiesel Digest, Vol 47, Issue 6

this could be great, since I have a moral problem with growing food to 
make fuel while others are under nourished....

Felix
>
> 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 
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>
> 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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