Algae CO2 Capture at the University of Kentucky: Part 1
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2013
- Four years ago, CAER and UK's Biosystems & Ag Engineering Department set out to prove that an algae-based system could recycle the CO2 in flue gas. With $1.8 million in funding from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, CAER is now partnering with Duke Energy to test a pilot-scale algae system at East Bend Station.
Produced by Research Communications at the University of Kentucky.
Is this project still going? With global warming getting worse, we need this technology expanded more than ever.
Algae is not technology.
And no, must of these projects shut down in 2014 when energy prices crashed.
May get new attention now that energy prices are up again.
@@OA-B who gives a shit now? The fight against runaway global warming is all but bloody over if it ever was even a proper fight to begin with.
@@OA-B research into this is still alive
This is a joke right?
@@SteveVi0lence With all the arseholes that run the show, do you really think we have a chance in hell?!
Great research Project. Hopefully, this continues to functional fruition. Proud of Blue.
This is really interesting and definitely deserves more views. Like the comments below, am also wondering whether it's still going, perhaps an update video can be made?
Has this project been a sucess? Where are the final evaluation papers?
Hopefully we will see more and more of this technology, going forward!
Thanks for your comment. We are very proud of our UK team working on this important research! #seeblue!
fossil fuels mainly come from algae. So we NEED more algae to reverse the damage. These studies have shown that microalgae can capture around 100 Gt of CO2 into biomass annually. Microalgae as a key tool in achieving carbon neutrality for bioproduct production - this 2023 paper says 100 gigatons of c02 per year can be stored by microalgae. Makes sense since that's the main source of fossil fuels.
Thanks for the question! We feed the flue gas directly to the algae. East Bend Station is a scrubbed unit with low SOx and NOx (Sulfur and Nitrous Oxides) concentrations so it is ready for the algae to use.
are there any sources for update on this project?
I think it would be a good time to expand this throughout America for the people. Somehow we need to start promoting this in commercials and getting investors on board to start producing Americas gas
@@davedave4763 I'm going to make Penn state do this.
@@TheemadRussian how is that going for you?
What can I do to help need to make flyers and put on all gas pumps about this technology
What is the harms and hazards. ?..
what are the effects to us to all peoples plants animals the earth our atmosphere and the waters the land and is it genetically engineering everything ...
What is most important is life preservation of us the earth and all things of good that we all were given to live happy healthy lives appreciation and being thankful respectful kind and caring understanding what really matters is having somewhere to live to eat and clean water to drink this was provided from the beginning...
Intelligence advancements of weaponry technologies have got us to now has bennifits however there has been more harm catastrophes atmospheric bio gio genetic harms hazards destruction deaths and they have been kept mostly hidden and under reported kept from the general public and not fully disclosed or discussed because the value of using making selling ENERGY the projects missions scematics industrialisation the machines and financial greed and narcissistic agendas that have put little to NO value on our lives the animals the plants the earth and all that was made of good for us all to survive ...there is no good done if you don't know what good is or means ...
If you have no empathy respect love in your heart to understand what is of good means and is you should not be in positions of decision making of any kind ...
All pros and cons must be disclosed and if it is not of good for all people the earth and the survival of what was of good you need to use your intellect and be wise enough to know when to stop !
Would love to see an update on this. How did the expansion go?
Placing the algae proximal to an energy plant brings the sink closer to such plant, thus improving its use as a sink.
This is a great idea 💡
Excellent!!!
Keep up the good work
Please keep this study up to date here.
Where do you got those nice clear acrylic tubes from? :P
Bon travail . Félicitations
So what kind of algae are you guys using ?
Is there ant way to get an update and business contacts?
What a shame that UK does not really do a good job sharing its research internally. 7 years ago I was at UK and had never even heard of this project and it was directly related to my major and current employment. What a shame, and it only has 75k view in 7y.
How come there is no boat with an onboard algae farm for fuel?
How is this coming along?
Thanks for your question. According to Dr. Crocker, "Flue gas, containing about 12% CO2, is taken from the stack and piped directly to the photobioreactor containing the algae, i.e., we don't treat the flue gas in any way. The flue gas is introduced into the photobioreactor at the point where the liquid flows into the feed tank from the tubes. This falling column of water generates suction, sufficient to suck in the flue gas." Thanks for your interest in this project.
first of all than you for your videos, which courses/faculty shall i study in ,in order to design photobioreactors plants?
Would like to know if I could help make this process move forward to making gas for the people of America
Note that the picture of the smoke coming out that stack is water vapor, not CO2. CO2 is invisible.
Could this method be also used as a way to clean waste water after it goes through the industrial water treatment & usage?
I ask this, because waste water is so good for algae, we can see algae blooms in estuaries all around the world.
What species are the algaes?
can we get small amount (500ml)of this algae oil for some price to do small experiment
As a UK grad and student of energy in an MSES program in SPEA IUB, I think this project is brilliant! Biogas/biofuels from flue gas is awesome! What's done with the CO2 part of the biogas from the AD? Is it pumped back to the algae?
+Keane Gleeson thanks for your feedback. We will try to find out that answer for you.
+Keane Gleeson This is from Dr. Crocker:
"Thanks for the kind words. In a commercial process the CO2 would indeed be separated from the methane and recycled back to the algae culturing system. However, based on the current economics of algae production, anaerobic digestion isn't an attractive use of the algae. Our current concept is to extract the lipids (oil) from the algae for the isolation of valuable compounds (carotenoids and polyunsaturated fatty acids), with conversion of the less valuable lipids to biodiesel. The residual algae biomass (mainly protein and carbohydrate) would be used for the production of bioplastics."
These studies have shown that microalgae can capture around 100 Gt of CO2 into biomass annually. Microalgae as a key tool in achieving carbon neutrality for bioproduct production - this 2023 paper says 100 gigatons of c02 per year can be stored by microalgae. Makes sense since that's the main source of fossil fuels.
7 years later, year 2021, update please
I live in Ft Pierce Fl, we have enough algae in our 100 mile lagoon, With a hose I could suck this stuff up into a holding tank. This stuff is killing everything. Any way to use that for fuel.
Keep up the good work.
Chris
there is a really simple method if you really do have algae coming out of your orifices. simply take a bunch of said algae and set it out to dry. wait until the algae appears to be greenish-black flakes. take these flakes and put them in a press to squeeze out, believe it or not, oil! (oil as in stuff to make gasoline and diesel)
How do you clean the inside wall of the tube due to the sunlight blocking from the moss growing, dregs or debris?
by cleaning pigs with foam slugs
Algae based carbon capture technology will give a run for the money for the direct air method of carbon capture.Yet countries like USA, China, Australia, Britain, Russia, Canada,France and India require atleast millions of carbon capture plants,even in its algae based Avatar in order to battle global warming.
Would love to build something like this at home at a smaller scale to help reduce my footprint. Great project!
Capturing CO2 using algae would mean nothing if it's left to live past its short life span and release the CO2 again. It needs to be buried very deep underground to make the CO2 be taken care of for good.
@@imlivingunderyourbed7845 my understanding is once it's dried then it's easy to store. Maybe if I get enough I can find some old storage containers past their usable life for normal storage. Trying something is better than doing nothing.
@@CorvetteAustin24 Indeed. Careful not to let any leak into bodies of water.
Algae bloom is not good and Chlorella is the fastest-growing algae species.
I just want to mention again this is great technology we can't get rid of coal right away.
I hope to see this moving in the direction where the plan is no longer burning coal but the bio fuel that is produced on the site.
Thanks for your feedback about this intriguing research.
cold turkey is the way to go for individuals - in some cases. STEADY AND BOLD ongoing efforts (even some bridge technology) is the way to go if you have to deal with THE MOST IMPORTANT commodity in the economy (also in agriculture, fertilzer production costs a lot of energy !)
So important that many wars and foreign policy decisions have to do with it. (Blood for oil).
Cheap fossil energy is one of the conditions of our CURRENT economic model. this system does not put a price tag on external costs, like pollution, health riks for workers or consumers, ... or the consequences of climate change). Those costs are slapped onto somebody else (than the producer, profiteer, consumer) or everyone complacently places them onto future generations of the poor citizens in developing countries.
If the algae was Spirulina or Chlorella, then the profit margin and high quality nutritional algae would surely be better to make the finances work?
I've heard certain types of algae can be used to replace animal feed when dried out. Also, can algae take methane out too?
From Dr. Crocker:
Yes, algae can be used as animal food. Algae typically have a fairly high protein content, while some algae contain valuable fatty acids (EPA, DHA) which are beneficial in animal diets (as well as human diets!). Currently, algae are added to some high end pet foods and are sold in health food stores as a nutritional additive for humans. In addition, algae are being researched for use in cattle feed, pig feed, chicken feed, etc. Finally, it's worth noting that algae have been used for many years as fish food, e.g., in catfish ponds.Algae can also be used to make methane. Anaerobic digestion (which relies on anaerobic bacteria to decompose organic matter) can be used to convert algae to a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide. At present this isn't very attractive, however, due to the low price of methane and the high cost of production of algae.
University of Kentucky thanks!
university of kentucky , can you explain to me how you capture carbon?or do you just pump it to the water containing algae?
My understanding is that getting the carbon concentrations high enough to support a financially viable algal yield is the one of, if not the biggest bottleneck to scaling up the production of algal biofuel. Are there any breakthroughs being made on this front? It seems like if this hurdle can't be overcome the best we can really hope for is to tie photobioreactors to fossil fuel systems that produce lots of CO2. I'd like to see photobioreactors that can actually lower existing atmospheric levels of CO2.
From Dr. Crocker:
"Yes, it's true to say that the CO2 has to be provided at a reasonably high concentration, e.g., > 1%. Using CO2 at atmospheric concentrations is not a realistic option because algae growth rates are so low that the production of algae isn't economically viable. Hence, algae production will have to be situated next to large point sources of CO2, or, if it's not too expensive, CO2 will have to be piped to the facilities."
Thank you for taking the time to answer. I wonder if you (and perhaps any of your colleagues on this work) might consider doing a reddit AMA (www.reddit.com/r/AMA/) on the subject.
We will pass along your message. Thanks!
@@jasonjohnson1404 What about having this in cities with high pollution like LA, Mexico City, and Shanghai? Would that make much of a difference?
@@jasonjohnson1404 But those places are mostly polluted by things other than CO and CO2, right?
300 manatees, 200 dolphins and 600 pelicans are dead in our lagoon from algae blooms. Can we find a use for the algae we have already have. I'm testing as we speak. I can fill a 55 gallon drum in less than 15 minutes with pure algae. I need help with the correct filter.
Chris: I just noticed your comment on the video today. We might be able to help you out with the dewatering of the biomass. Feel free to email me at michael.wilson@uky.edu to follow up. Happy Holidays!!
Chris gosse I'm in SLW Florida, Chris. Glad to see someone making an attempt to help the animals in our waters.
Allot of theese videos are years old. I wonder what happened now, 8 years down the road and why we dont hear about ut
How do you introduce the CO2 to the algae tubes? Do you get it directly from the power plant fumes?
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Where are we at with this I remember seeing this new. And was happy to find it again
Wondering the same thing
Realistic or green window dressing? Producing algae like this is going to require production of as much or more CO2 than it “sequesters”. Also, what happens to the algae once it is grown? It will be converted back to CO2 if converted to methane fed to animals or allowed to decompose. Not really sequestering CO2, not viable economically or for reducing C in the atmosphere. Just a fun project and some PR for the coal burning company.
I have a question. What is the best way to cook algae?
Hello. Here is a response from Dr. Crocker: In general, algae isn't cooked. If it's for human or animal consumption, the algae is usually eaten raw. In the case of animal feed (or fish food), the dry algae powder is mixed with other feed ingredients. For human consumption, the algae can be added to smoothies, etc. Occasionally, people mix algae into cakes, etc., before baking. For some examples, see the following link, although it mainly deals with macroalgae (seaweed) which is more commonly eaten than microalgae:
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@@universityofkentuckyofficial Do I have to be careful with the species of algae I want to farm? Other than red tide algae, I don't know any other poisonous ones.
From Dr. Crocker:
"Yes, there are species of green algae and blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) that produce toxins. It's best to stick to the well-characterized, robust, fast growing species such as Chlorella or Scenedesmus. Of course, it also depends on the end use, e.g., animal feed, human consumption, bioplastics, etc. "
It does exist. Think catalyst a ml d reactors that separate hydrogen and oxygen. It can be retrofitted to separate carbon from the oxygen.
Contact Berkley.
If you are looking for away to help the environment you can use ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees
First off I think this technologies is great, I'm glad to see funding put towards it as we can learn how to bring coasts down.
By Converting the algae to a bio fuel, which will later be burned, it is my understanding, The Co2 captured this way will still ultimately end up in the atmosphere.
The seems like you are only delaying the Co2 transmission to the atmosphere. bio fuel is great when it is the only fuel that is being used.
Atmosphere Co2 -> algae -> bio fuel -> Atmosphere Co2
is a closed system. However, co2 from something like a Coal is not closed it's just temporarily putting new carbon into the algae before releasing it.
Fossil Carbon -> algea -> Bio fuel -> new atmosphere Co2
Even producing animal feed will ultimatly release the Co2 through biological digestion.
I understand that a bio fuel by product is commercially attractive. However, true capture of the Co2 would require doing something like burying the algae in exhausted coal mines, where it can turn back into fuel in 100 000 years.
This technology is improving efficiency by creating additional fuel out of the carbon. but it does not quite capture the Co2 permanently.
Thanks for your feedback on this important topic.
Alan Van Arden not quite right, Fossil carbon(optional) > algae > Biofeul > CO2 > Algae > biofeul > CO> Algae...... and if we were to eliminate coal plants (alot of coal comes from algae), then it would be a complete closed loop
What about heavy metals that are poisonous. Don't they get in the food?
Also, does the algae require any fertiliser?
Hello. Here is Dr. Crocker's response to your question:
Yes, algae require certain nutrients which are provided as fertilizer. The most important of these are nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). The N can be provided as a nitrate compound such as NaNO3, or as urea. The P is usually provided as a phosphate compound. Additionally, algae require lower concentrations of other nutrients such as Mg, Ca, K, etc.
@@universityofkentuckyofficial So, can I farm algae by letting sewage and farm runoffs flow through an algae breeder? I think if could, we can kill two birds with one stone.
From Dr. Crocker:
"Yes, it's possible to use farm run-off as a nutrient source (i.e., water containing N, P, etc.). You may need to add some fertilizer depending on the concentrations of the nutrients in the run-off water. I wouldn't use sewage for a couple of reasons: (i) the algae culture will become heavily contaminated with bacteria (the bacteria may take over); (ii) adding solid matter will cause the algae culture to become turbid, cutting down the amount of light that can reach the algae in the culture. Hence, the algae will grow more slowly and may die if the culture is too turbid."
Hello dear. currently i am working on my project about " Removal Of Emerging Pollutants Using Microalgae" we are using microalgae to eliminate the pollutants from wastewater. but hence we can't cultivate out microalgae in close system. any specific person who is working regarding Microalgae need your guidance. I'll wait for a positive Feedback
If they implemented mirrors around to follow the sun and reflect it in every direction then the spacing wouldn't have been an issue.
So, if burning methane produces carbon dioxide and water and we can feed carbon dioxide to algae to produce biofuels - doesn't that mean we have an unlimited source of biofuel in the form of processed methane?
we are interested but how much finance it require,
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Is the microalgae safe for human consumption?
There are many species of algae. Some of them can be consumed by humans. Such as spirulina that you'll likely find at a health food store.
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I would think that would clean the air
Any update on this project? Can I read more about it somewhere how is it doing now?
"Another technology isolates the co2 by combusting the fuel with only oxygen"
Damn right brother
Oden - green
2013 we kenw it for sooo long and stiull our politicians ignored the problem
Algae is 30 times more efficient then diesel. So does that mean the engine rpms are 30 times faster or is it more fuel efficient? I'm curious.
30 times more efficient as in if you had 1 gallon of algae it would provide the same power as 30 gallons of diesel.
its great but there is no way that is large enough. and scaled up they will just take the oils from the algae and end up burning it....
An excellent idea, it can perhaps even scale, but doubt whether it will ever become economically attractive.
Nuclear reactors are an excellent way to produce greenhouse gas free electricity and they could power these carbon scrubbers.
New advances such as small modular reactors built on an assembly line and trucked out to sites around the globe that could be as common as a Walmart or a hospital. Truly enabling a local power grid coupled with wind and solar.
Make no mistake that there are forces that want to make nuclear power so expensive that it's not viable.
When you look at the worst case scenarios of Chernobyl and Fukushima you can see that nuclear power is truly not the boogeyman that people want to make it out to be, but rather the overreaction to an accident.
I recommend podcasts such as Titans of Nuclear and lots of UA-cam channels educating on how nuclear power works, including the economics.
I would much rather live next door to a nuclear power plant than a coal or natural gas plant.
Wha? You use the captured carbon to turn into fuel? Thus releasing it all back into the atmosphere? Great job 👏
Why don't you capture it, contain it and sell it out west to the indoor growers? Now you're cleaning it up, allowing it to be used for consumption by plants and making $ too.
Come on Elon slam that 100m prize in here.
You could keep the tubes on the roofs for more sun exposure, and even have them on a turn table slowly rotating all day so they all get max exposure to the sun wherever it is...
Could we PLEASE just focus on getting the CO2 out of the air as fast as possible and NOT delude ourselves into believing we're going to use the algae as a biofuel, which would - by burning it - simply put the CO2 BACK INTO THE AIR?
Algae fuel could help with STORAGE which is one of the MAIN CHALLENGES for the breakthrough of renewable energy - the CHANGE of PARADIGM. - Algae fuel would be NEUTRAL in the carbon cycle - and it REPLACES FOSSIL fuel - So it does not decrease Co2 in the atmosphere - but it also does not add either, it is at LEAST neutral. Algae COULD be a form of sequestering btw, but using the won bio mass as fuel, food ... makes them more economic. As long as there is no compensation paid for sequestering.
Co2 SEQUESTERING SCHEMES are by nature large, industrial, investor-friendly business models. Ideas like pumping it back deep into the earth or into the deep ocean and other schemes that may or may not work technically.
Working not only for a few years but at least keep it away for some decades, never mind the costs or unwanted side effects and hazards.
True, we might need them anyway as an emergency measure because of the RESISTANCE to any change by Big Biz and politics for decades.
But as a *matter of urgency* we better make sure to *protect exisiting forests* and take care of *METHANE* release (swamps, leaks in piplelines, fracking, garbage dumps, agriculture, especially MEAT production, BEEF production) - both points see below.
Also Co2 removal from the atmoshpere PLUS continued extraction of fossil fuels (like they could last forever !! or be won without major costs to the enviroment) is is a scheme that for sure will please the existing lare energy providers (their sharehoders and the politicians they bribe)..
The easy to extract, cheap fossil fuel sources have been used form many decades (for instance Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, ... ). Now it is offshore drilling, fracking, hare brained futuristic schemes to use Methane ice. It is getting more poisenous or dangerous to get to those fossil fuels. And more expensive.
It does nothing to eliminate "blood for oil", the pollution and the destruction of the enviroment because of extracting oil or fracking or coal mining.
There is a lot of talk about fusion reactors - they have been talking about them since the 60s. They may or may not become viable in the next 20 years. Well we cannot wait for them.
They still would produce waste (although it is easier to handle that waste compared to that from nuclear fission, for which there is NO solution so far)
On the other hand one has to think about the large scale use of that energy source - for transport, for heating, producing fertilizers - there still will be a serious challenge regarding waste management.
YOU might not promote sequestering in combination with continued use of fossil fuel - but you bet that is the only way Big Oil and Big Energy and also the Military Industrial Complex can resign themselves to any REAL action.
Sequestering - and maybe nuclear fusion.
And they act like even for that we had time forever. - There is be a point of no-return where we get runaway global warming - and we are near that threshold or already passed it.
We the citizens do not get a) another form of decentral, small-scale energy production and b) will have to bear the additional costs for those investor friendly schemes that work only with Big corporations..
With renewables production / demand cannot be made to match, there are spikes, production is erratic (too much solar electricity puts the grid in danger - that is an issue with German production - or not enough energy when it is needed).
Cost efficient production of renewable energy WHEN conditions are good isn't the issue anymore especially for solar and wind, and we get much, much more solar radiation from the sun than we need to harvest.
But navigating the erratic nature of renewable energy is still the issue and has prevented their breakthrough so far - I mean taking over big time.
Metal-based battery solutions come with their own challenges (like the impact the mining and their production causes pollution).
Maybe there are other solutions: Graphene ? artifical photosynthesis, SolarToHydrogen, SolarToGas (gas in that case means Methane the same molecule that is the main part of fracked or fossil gas).
Fuel cell or hydrogen fuel cell research has been around for decades - but of course only with some half hearted commitment /public funding / subsidies.
Major subsidies would be needed for any groundbreaking new technology: ALL really new technolgies (even more so when they also needed infrastructure) had a lot of public funding.
Algae fuel could be part of the storage solution, and it does not require completely new technology - like with Graphene research or hydrogen fue or nuclear fusion (Thorium). Some breakthrough headlines in spring 2018, regarding nuclear fusion we'll see.
I also like the versatility of algae: the harvest can even be used to sequester carbon (than it would actually reduce Co2 although at higher costs - well no one knows what the other schemes for carbon sequesterin would cost). - One cheap scheme would be GROWING TREES. They can easily last 200 years, some species get much older, that could buy us some time.
If the won carbon/biomass of algae is USED it constitutes at least a CLOSED CYCLE = NEUTRAL FOOTPRINT - and it can become food directly for humans, feed animals, maybe be turned into fertilizer. Or different sorts of fuel - replacing the fossil fuel we use for cars, trucks, airplanes.
Maybe it can even replace fossil fuels as raw material for the petrochemical industry.
Of course there have never been really BOLD RESEARCH EFFORTS for all sorts of storage solutions. Not with the kind of "can do" attitude that was shown for instance in the "Race to the Moon" or with the "Manhattan project".
Or the long and sustained efforts and military funding that went into the development of electronics, PC, the internet, touchscreen technology.
(No, we have not to thank the "free market" or entrepreneurship for these breakthrough technologies - they all received massive and long lasting funding - by the military and it was also lobbied for by the people who profit from those contracts.)
Unfortuntely until now that kind of commitment seems only to find political support if it is for war/military - not for life affirming efforts.
A good, scaleable, reliable, economice solution for the STORAGE problem (how to deal with erratic production, how to bridge the gap between solar production in summer and winter) would be the breakthrough - and would shift the whole energy system to become more decentral with smaller or non-profit players.
yall tried insulating your houses so you don't have to burn in the first place?
a good place would be to develop a unit system to add onto domestic gas boilers and hospital heating systems.
Next is coming near here soon...of course a carbon negative process indeed.
Prestem atencao: regular o mercado de CO2 é complexo. Existem varios tipos de emissoes. Varios tipos de uso economico do ativo e varios tipos de captacao em ciclos .
E preciso saber fazer a cadeia exata para cada tipo de mercado e regular conforme a necessidade economica , climatica e ambiental . Sem pensar em quanto custa ou quanto vou ganhar. Mas em como vou cuidar desse recurso sem prejudicar a economia e a vida celular e o clima mundial.
Os ganhos sao apenas um negocio secundario neste processo. Pois o objetivo primário é a vida na Terra e o clima mundial.
Precisam desenvolver tecnologias de software e legislacao para isso. Posso ajudar a elaborar essas leis e codigos numéricos administrativos.
The next step is to visualise the world’s vehicles as Carbon Sequestering machine, cos for every gallon of Algea Bio Fuel that is bought and used, 10 pounds of a nutrient rich Carbon residue is produced. PBR’s are cheap, easy and quick to build, and could be rolled out in every locality so creating millions of climate saving jobs, and cleaning our waste water in the process. As waste water treatment is normally energy intensive. To fund the roll outt PBR nationwide in every locality and to level the playing field, we need to demand a phased transfer of the £10.5 Billion fossil fuel subsidies onto renewables and to fund the roll out of PBR. I propose to make sure we are Carbon Nuetral by 2025, that we phase the transfer by £2 Billion p/a,for 5 years till we reach 10 Billion in five years, then the full £10.5 Billion transfered is guaranteed to continue until we have transitioned completely off fossil fuels for transport and energy!.This would happen in 3-5 years if the subsidies was transferred as I said!.
Planting trees / crops seems cheaper and easier way of capturing carbon.
Cant we use this algae for use of fertilizer and fertilize the Sahara desert? Plant trees there! That would be huge!!
Co2 can be youse in farming 🚜 😏 its like protein shake to plants
This is at least a negative charge for the system's transition. Co2 is valuable. The Carbon in my soda is premium, is created from a limestone reaction.
So you can technically feed these algae alka selzter tablets. For biomass right? That's right.
Since you're degrading the algea you are only making use of the co2. This is not a carbon capture
Waste of time...
FRAUD??? Recently, I have become interested in similar projects. and i noticed that you cannot trust this beautiful presentation. for this reason, on google ertch the setelitarian pictures of the terrain. unfortunately I didn't see anything there, even I wasn't able to locate small experimental units. Satellite photos are from 2020. Can anyone tell me what happened to this project, was it closed or maybe the locations were transferred? any information will be useful because maybe I made a mistake and did not identify correctly.