2Penny <lw_rogers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Mr Ausound -
>
> I appreciate your actually popping open the URLs and looking
> at the enclosed info. Okay, you seem to have actually read
> the info; am I being naive or does it look like there's a chance
> of breaking away from mid-east oil?
Heck No
>
> I'm not talking "electric cars", but just not (euphemisticly
> speaking) "selling rope to someone that wants to hang us";
> I don't want to put money in mid-eastern hands.
The world has pumped out Saudi Arabia's the light sweet crude, and the
heavy crap is left. We'll be pumpin' that **** til it's dry before
alternates and the cleans become viable.
With so much coal in the USA you'd think the coal conversion and the
clean coal businesses would be huge.... but they're not.... look at the
short positions in many of these stocks.
>
> Does this look like it can get us away from mid-east oil or
> am I being naive?
Did we get a chicken in every pot?
>
> Let's worry about slowing down our energy consumption after
> we get this noose from around our necks.
There will be money to be made in the alternates and the cleans
Case in point: the MANDATES
I believe more than half the states have MANDATES where 20%-30% of their
electricity must be renewable by like 2012 or2015
Aquisitions will be made.
>
> 2Penny
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> ausound wrote:
>> 2Penny <lw_rogers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:joOVj.293$l97.52@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Hey Folks -
>>>
>>> I've been led to understand that the slime one normally
>>> associates with algae is a refinable variety of petroleum like
>>> "light sweet crude" and this biofuel can be produced quickly and
>>> economicly. This sounds almost too good to believe.
>>
>> =====================
>> http://media.cleantech.com/1224/algae-biofuel-of-the-future
>>
>> September 18, 2007
>>
>> Algae is a promising biofuel feedstock. But it's a long way from
>> commercial production in volume.
>> Learn why, and see who's farthest along.
>>
>> Algae is one of the most promising feedstocks that industry insiders
>> talk about for future biofuel production.
>>
>> The yields of oil from algae are orders of magnitude higher than
>> those for traditional oilseeds
>> Algae can be grown in places far from farmlands & forests, minimizing
>> the damages caused to the eco- and food chain systems, and obviating
>> the food vs. fuel dilemma, and
>> Algae can be grown in sewages and next to power-plant smokestacks
>> where they digest pollutant and harmful emissions
>> Yet, despite outrageous claims from certain circles, big technical
>> hurdles exist to being able to harvest oil from algae in quantities
>> large enough to make biodiesel or other fuels from it.
>> ======================
>>
>> http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1490/70/
>>
>> Green Fuel Technologies
>> http://www.greenfuelonline.com/
>> just announced they had begun construction of their commercial scale
>> algae plant while PetroSun announced they'd be taking their pilot
>> algae farm commercial on April 1st.
>> ----------
>> PetroSun's facility, on the other hand, has 1,100 acres of open ponds
>> growing algae in Texas. Open ponds are cheaper, but it's more
>> difficult to control which species of algae are growing
>> ========================
>>
>> http://www.investinalgaebiodiesel.com/
>>
>> Algae biodiesel companies leading the industry:
>> Aquaflow A New Zealand company that expects to be the first company
>> in the world to economically produce biofuel from wild algae
>> harvested from open- air environments, to market it, and meet the
>> challenge of increasing demand.
>>
>> GreenFuel Technology Corp. Cambridge, Mass. company working with
>> power plants to build algae producing photobioreactors. Tests show
>> its system captured about 80% of the CO2 emitted during the day when
>> sunlight is available.
>>
>> HR Biopetroleum The Hawaii based company intends to be a
>> designer-builder of algae biofuels plants and to produce and market
>> renewable fuel feedstock and animal nutritional supplemental protein.
>> Partnering with Royal Dutch Shell in a joint venture called Cellana,
>> they plan to initially build a small research plant but hope to move
>> to a full-scale commercial plant of 20,000 hectares.
>>
>> LiveFuels The Menlo Park, CA research company describes itself as a
>> min- manhattan project with a national alliance of labs and
>> scientists dedicated to transforming algae into biocrude by the year
>> 2010. Their strategy involves developing algae that will thrive in
>> open ponds. Imperium Renewables The Seatle company that has made a
>> name for itself from producing traditional biodiesel, announced that
>> it has dedicated a 5 million-gallon refinery to algae oil. Has
>> established a feedstock agreement where Solazyme will supply algal
>> oil.
>>
>> OTEC A San Francisco bay area firm developing photobioreactors -
>> enclosed systems that produce algae in layer upon layer of tubes or
>> shallow ponds. PetroSun PetroSun is a diversified energy company
>> specializing in the discovery and development of both traditional
>> fossil fuels and renewable energy resources. Under the terms of a
>> November 2007 agreement,
>>
>> PetroSun BioFuels will supply Bio-Alternatives fifty percent of its
>> raw algal oil production from planned algae farms and extraction
>> plants in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi up to a maximum of 150
>> million gallons per year. PetroSun BioFuels and Bio-Alternatives have
>> agreed to locate the initial algae farm, extraction plant and
>> biodiesel refinery in Louisiana. Negotiations have commenced to
>> secure the land and permits that are required for the respective
>> operations. PetroSun is in the pre-commercial stage with its
>> algae-to-biofuels production technology. The Company plans to
>> establish algae farms and algal oil extraction plants in Alabama,
>> Arizona, Louisiana, Mexico, Brazil and Australia during 2008. The
>> algal oil product will be marketed as feedstock to existing biodiesel
>> refiners and planned company owned refineries. PetroSun is
>> headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona with field offices in
>> Shreve****t, Louisiana and Opelika, Alabama.
>>
>> Solazyme A somewhat secretive San Franciso based biotechnology
>> company that apparently has already harvested thousands of gallons of
>> algal oil. They have engineered more than a dozen specialized strains
>> and ramped up pre- commercial production. “We can easily make
>> thousands of gallons [of algal biodiesel] a month,” says Chief
>> Operating Officer Jonathan S. Wolfson. Solazyme has entered into a
>> biodiesel feedstock development agreement in which they will generate
>> algal oil for Imperium's biodiesel production process. Jerry Fiddler,
>> Solazyme's Chairman says, "The technology is much farther along than
>> most people realize. Our energy future includes algae which will
>> serve as a biodiesel feedstock of increasing im****tance."
>>
>> Solix The Solix team of engineers in Fort Collins, CO are working on
>> a design for a closed algae growth system that is cost competitive
>> with open systems.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ====================
>>
>> Biofuel from algae by territory
>>
>> [edit] Canada
>> International Energy, Inc [28] (OTCBB: IENI.OB)
>>
>> [edit] Oceania
>>
>> [edit] New Zealand
>> Aquaflow Bionomic Cor****ation (ABC). [29]: Boeing and Air New Zealand
>> announced a joint project with Aquaflow Bionomic to develop algae jet
>> fuel. [30]
>>
>> [edit] USA
>> There are diverse companies developing biofuels from algae:
>>
>> Aurora BioFuels [31]
>> Blue Marble Energy [32]
>> Diversified Energy Cor****ation. [33]
>> Global Green Solutions [34]
>> GreenerBioEnergy [35]
>> GreenFuel Technologies Cor****ation
>> Imperium Renewables [36], former Seattle Biodiesel, LLC.
>> Inventure Chemical [37]
>> Kai BioEnergy Corp. [38]
>> Live Fuels, Inc. [39]
>> PetroSun and Algae BioFuels Inc., wholly-owned subsidiary. [40]
>> Solazyme, Inc. [41]
>> Shell [42] and HR BioPetroleum [43]
>> Solix Biofuels [44]
>> Virgin Green Fund
>> Algoil Industries, Inc.
>> ===================================
>>
>> http://gas2.org/2008/02/19/algae-biofuel-to-be-used-in-virgin-atlantic
>> -747- test-flight/
>>
>> Virgin Atlantic Airways will use a 20% blend of algae-derived biofuel
>> in a demonstration flight later this month. The fuel will be fed to
>> one engine through an independent system in order not to mix with the
>> fuel going to the other three engines.
>> -------------
>> Airbus used a gas to liquid fuel, derived from natural gas, in its
>> flight from Filton, UK to Toulouse, France in mid January.
>>
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