gblueslover2 filling up takes 5 minutes while you’re running errands. Charging takes up to an hour even at the fastest charge stations. Not terribly convenient if you drive long distances at a time. Also, this bio fuel could end up being pretty damn cheap. Fuel refining is a very cheap process. The prices breaks down to oil cost, refining, shipping and dispensing, ad recuperation, and taxes. This bio fuel is renewable, can be produced locally, and will likely have lower taxes for lower emissions. On top of that buying a new EV is both more expensive and much dirtier than keeping an existing ICE running. EVs only truly shine for people who can actually recharge overnight, ie short/mostly in town commutes. ICEs are much better for highway and long distance drivers.
This is something I could actually get behind and actually see being done in the future. I live in Florida, Most of our Power Plants are by bodies of fresh or salt water. This would bring an end to the subsidization of food products like corn and sugar for ethanol.
If you have the skills and education to do that work, you should have no problem finding a similar job in another form of chemical engineering with very little training, no? I wouldn't worry about that too much...engineers will never be abundant in the world...it is just way too hard for 99% of the population to get through those calculus and physics classes!!
Figuring out how to make this stuff we pump up from the bowels of the earth on the surface in large amounts would be nice bro. Imagine the cost of fueling things becomes not even a concern.
The world runs on diesel, not gas. Trains, farm equipment, trucks, construction equipment, ships. This could be huge in keeping the world economy going when oil production slows.
We need synthetics made from abundant sources that are chemically identical so you can mix it right into the real stuff and none of them machines know the difference. That way my car can just have 91 octane and the crude oil tanker ship I invest in can still make a ton of money whether it's pumping the real deal or the real deal just made in a factory. We should have to worry about if the fuel pumps are going to run out or be too expensive while the government tries to groom you to buy an electric car so they dig up another few square miles of the earth looking for lithium. I'm going to look into lithium structure.
Bro we're not going to have a choice. They already spike straight ethanol made from corn into most of the gas for sale. The issue is that seems like a weird way to do it when you could take the corn and mix it with other stuff and try to make A chemically identical man made oil, fuel ect. If you could make a molecule that was molecularly identical to the hydrocarbons used to make our fuels in refining, you could just mix it right in with the real stuff pumped out of the bowels of the earth and none of the oil tankers or motor cars would be able to tell the difference. Problem is, it takes a crap load of energy to do that.
Ironically, science is also why we're in such a predicament. The stone age and the hunter/gathers were sustainable. Fossil fuels, Haber-Bosch, and the overproduction inherent in capitalism is not.
@@Bo12346hhgfgdg Capitalism would be fine by me if externalaties didn't exist, but they do. I'd even be forgiving of capitalism if the externalities would reliably show up on the corporate balance sheet as an expense, clearly they don't. Pollution/habitat destruction-- the resulting poor health outcomes, dislocations of those with family farms/small fishing operations, or those who simply live off the land, are all scenarios and costs beared by the general public. Rarely are corporations required to compensate individuals and communities even approximating a level of fairness. We all hear about the rare $100 million settlements, but that's after many have already died or been financially ruined. Corporate boards need more transparency and worker representation. A corporation shouldn't be structured in a way which is secretive and at odds with their workers, the communities they operate in, or to the environment. All this plastic crap and overproduction of non organic chemicals and the burning of both waste and fossil fuels is affecting all of us. I don't take endocrine disruptors, cancer, respitory illnesses, or global habitat destruction lightly. What quality of life has really been achieved by a comfortable life with a bunch of gadgets and toys, if you're body and brain have been diminished?
Genetically engineer a new type of algae that is more suitable to the farming process and make a type for each climate. CRISPR should be capable of such a feat.
You can't just genetically engineer stuff willy nilly. You have to be careful of what you are releasing into the wild. Normally when something microscopic is genetically engineered it's kept in tanks or some other container.
Lemonz1989 Agreed. And for the record, I'm an engineer, not a geneticist. I don't really know what it takes to alter an organisms, just what I've seen on UA-cam. That said, the modified algae would be in containers. That and you could seal the tops with transparent plastic to seal the moisture inside. Assuming the algae thrive in warm humid environments, you could use cheap desert land to set up large scale facilities.
I love this! Positive innovation! And as a spirulina user I was already fine with algae anyway. :D Negative people should remember that if you would have talked to someone 30 years ago, and told them we'd all be walking around with our own little portable computers, that allow us to use a global network, look up all the information in it and watch videos online, there would have been many people who would have thought it was a crazy idea. Progress often goes faster than people expect, once the momentum is there, the train is on the track and it will steadily keep moving. So stay positive and all try to do your part to help the environment.
Well,still electric cars is more silent and easy to controll so this could be an alternate car:either you want silent slightly better more exspensive car or the cheap one FlushF00T
I'm including this company in a presentation project to present to my state's legislator in order to help expand its reach, or at the very least increase awareness of it in order to help advance its global affect with other green-solution companies trying to combat the world's mounting problems. If you want to help accelerate such causes, then I recommend that you do the same thing. Call up your representatives and bring this to their attention. It's a very simple baby step that you can take to have a real change in the world.
automotives dont have to be dependent on fossil fuels! This video shows how we can make biodiesel, this could power all of our semi-trucks and industrial transportation, and with the common day citizen who doesnt drive a diesel truck, we have ethanol! Not only can we create cars that wont be dependent on a depleting resource, but fuels like e85 are actually higher octane then generic gasoline meaning that users can see performance benefits too!
Algae can actually also be used to make butanol, a different alcohol which is a near-substitute for gasoline or (more likely) can be blended with gasoline/petrol like ethanol (EtOH) is, only it's a FAR better choice than EtOH in many, many ways. It doesn't harm the plastics & rubber parts of a car engine, it doesn't increase pollution/emissions, it only slightly decreases mileage (but actually has similar power). And it can be blended in much higher percentages (or, again, be used almost nearly straight in an unmodified auto engine).
Excellent! I actually plan on researching deeper into this in university. From a biology perspective (e.g. how to cultivate it so it demands less water)
Well , one of the products of Algae Biofuel that i liked is called "Biogasoline" . Which can be used in ICE cars without Flex Engine / Special Engine ......
Tho only problem with Biofuels and current engines is that they're solvents, which means they can shrink/destroy rubber hoses, if you're going to use pure Biogasoline, you'd need to replace rubber hoses with something that doesn't get destroyed by it.
I hope that you guys can accomplish this mission!!! A world where everyone can see our beautiful blue sky and not worry about getting cancer, would be amazing!♡♡♡ :)
You will never see us get away from oil bro. Oils run the world. We're going to develop oil identical to what we pump out of the ground. I cook my food on a type of oil made from a seed. They even used it as a lube for mechanical things at one point. We're going to take micro nuclear powerplants to power some electrolysis so we can seperate ocean water into hydrogen and oxygen. Spaceships need oxygen because their is no air in space ECT. You can't just suck all the oxygen we breathe out of the air, so there is a demand for oxygen. Anyway, then we're going to mix the hydrogen and some carbon together to make synthetic gas that is chemically identical to the real premo organic matter we pump from deep underground. So we can produce more than we pump up and chop cost of fuel by order of magnitude and then we don't have to spike ethanol right into the gas which vehicles don't like. There's better things we can do with the corn or the ethanol tbh. I don't like hydrogen bombs driving around man! We could use the hydrogen and make real liquid gasoline if we get enough geniuses together
what if we could pump sea water into the desert, we could build algae rivers and lakes. and there would be lots of evaporated fresh water in the atmosphere. you could go huge to start with.
While it is true they need good access to sunlight and carbon, can that not be accessed in a building designed for vertical farming? The farm featured was built next to a power plant. Now how do you think they get the carbon from the plant, and into the plants (just to use a pun)? Putting the carbon in the air first would be inefficient, so it is likely pumped though pipes to the farm. If they are already doing that, they they could do the same for a vertical farm. Now that leaves only sunlight. Could not the algae get the sunlight in a vertical farm though careful building design that maximizes sunlight per floor and/or artificial lighting?
I feel like its a great idea you have going but from a business perspective, I don't think people are willing to put the time and money to design such a thing and have to keep it constantly regulated. Why do that when you can build a cheaper lane of open algae (remember they have to meet certain conditions to do what the makers want) and help the carbon pollution that's already out in the air.
True. It would require someone willing to spend the required money, knowing they would not get any good returns for it in a long time - if ever. It would take a billionaire who cares for the environment. Luckily, there are a few billionaires who at the least claim to care about the environment.
This is one of the first teams in the world to go all the way from designing sustainable biofuel feedstocks in outdoor ponds, to refining fuel so that it runs a diesel engine in a cleaner, more environmentally friendly way.
Why isn’t this a more prominent news item on nightly discussions of global warming, hunger, need for fuel, economics etc? This should be tag teaming with solar and wind and hydro electric to clean this planet up!
Another amazing story that need to be shared. I think it would help a lot if it had subtitles, for the non English speakers. ´Would gladly help to make the Spanish subtitle, and also german! Cheers and keep the good work.
Nice that this is on a channel called "stories", since that's what algae fuels will remain. It hes been researched and investigated for decades, yet they still haven't reached a positive energy balance.
This algae farming caught the eye of a chemist in the Philippines. So he established an events place (for leadership training and stuff) in the Pangasinan province. He's starting out small but I think it's great that he knows this idea.
Aleksey Benitez Any sources? I'm an aspiring chemist and I'm actually from Pangasinan :D It would be great if I could keep an eye on them and probably help them in the near future :D Hopefully, I get a Chemistry degree in 5 years XD
Wala po akong credible sources Haha but based sa the fact na may ganitong video, naniniwala na ako na posible siya. Maybe exaggerated lang siyang pnresent sa pinuntahan namin. Btw, Geo Farm name niya sa Brgy. Mangayao, Bayambang, Pangasinan Good luck on your journey!
I am about to embark upon an experiment in the destructive distillation of wood. I shall try to grow enough algae to do a batch, and see what I can get.
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This has real potential, near my home we have one huge coal power plant, people are complaining because they plan on building new block which will release even more CO2 in atmosphere. If only we could build similar algae feul factory it would solve the power plant problem which would be great!
It can't possibly be releasing more CO2 than eight billion Humans, and countless animals. Its not even CO2 coming out of that plant, it's Carbon Monoxide, which can be trapped and scrubbed. You're paranoid and uninformed.
I never said it releases more CO2 ''than eight billion Humans, and countless animals'', and it is Carbon Dioxide that is getting trapped and reused instead of being released in the atmosphere. I am not paranoid i just want the world to be better and healthier for our future generations.
***** Can you be anymore ignorant? Coal does not produce Carbon DIOXIDE, it produces Carbon MONOXIDE. The former FEEDS plants, and should be allowed into the air. The latter KILLS plants, and is trapped by scrubbers inside smokestacks. You are being played for a FOOL by corporations seeking to eliminate their competition.
I would absolutely buy this fuel, even if it would cost a little more than regular fuel. (Not at $30/gallon, of course, but the $2-$3, I'm good with. ;) ) Love, love, love this solution.
If you burn methane you get water, heat and CO2. If you mix algae, water, sunlight and CO2 you get food or fuel. If you bubble carbon dioxide through caustic soda you get more heat and sodium carbonate. So, two heat sources, water as a bi-product, a source of food and a source of fuel - all virtually unlimited and with a huge negative carbon footprint.
To answer the title question, no. The quantity can never come close to petroleum and cows need the prairie. Cows don’t get feed in Hawaii. The rest of world needs to follow suit. A prairie under a cow is still a prairie but a prairie under a plow is a man made desert. There is no replacement for using drastically less energy which will happen the hard way or the harder way. It is clear that nature’s limits will be reached before humans collectively decide to live in the ecology instead of next to it
The one thing that bothers me about these "technologies that will end poverty" and all the other hypes they have around them is that they never seem to implement these types of farms in the areas they're supposed to help. If it's going to be so great for Africa, why the hell is it in Hawaii?!?
Evan B You think this plant was set up with government money? Maybe a government grant or something but this is probably mostly private money. There are probably very few if any reason they couldn't build the plant where it's supposed to help people other than they didn't want too.
If some one doesn't see the operation making a lot of profit then no one will want to build it. That's just the kind of greedy world we live in. Governments have other problems to deal with in poorer countries unfortunately. I would just like to make it clear that I wish this technology be used everywhere in the world, I just just stating why it isn't.
Evan B It's not making any profit right now. Did you not hear them say that they would probably be down to $2 a gallon if they could scale it and they're having problems doing so? They aren't selling this yet.
Yes I did hear that and it further solidifies my point. How can a poor country implement this technology if they can't afford it? You asked why this isn't done in poor countries and that's why lol
I am not sure if this is correct (I may just be being stupid) but wouldn't burning the fuel in cars and planes produce carbon dioxide just like any other fuel. I would very much appreciate a response. Thanks for the great video.
The algae absorbs all of the CO2 that it releases while being farmed. It only releases carbon emissions into the air that it already removed from the air. It is carbon neutral. Basically, it recycles the carbon in the air for energy.
The Saudi and other middle eastern oil countries don't depend on oil as their income now, most of them have crossed over to renewable years ago and will be self sustaining by 2030.
hope this becomes more successful
It'll be bought or he'll have an "accident" while working..
it needs more testing ..
I'm with ya
I bet
gblueslover2 filling up takes 5 minutes while you’re running errands. Charging takes up to an hour even at the fastest charge stations. Not terribly convenient if you drive long distances at a time. Also, this bio fuel could end up being pretty damn cheap. Fuel refining is a very cheap process. The prices breaks down to oil cost, refining, shipping and dispensing, ad recuperation, and taxes. This bio fuel is renewable, can be produced locally, and will likely have lower taxes for lower emissions. On top of that buying a new EV is both more expensive and much dirtier than keeping an existing ICE running. EVs only truly shine for people who can actually recharge overnight, ie short/mostly in town commutes. ICEs are much better for highway and long distance drivers.
This is something I could actually get behind and actually see being done in the future. I live in Florida, Most of our Power Plants are by bodies of fresh or salt water. This would bring an end to the subsidization of food products like corn and sugar for ethanol.
Corn is love. Corn is life.
It would be helpful in FL since we gotta drive everywhere
Florida could see successful investments. I hope for the same here in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
being a petroleum engineer it could be nightmare but being a human it is wonderful government must support it
I'm sure plenty of chemists are needed to developed this. I'm almost certain that the best plastics yet to be discovered are plant based.
If you have the skills and education to do that work, you should have no problem finding a similar job in another form of chemical engineering with very little training, no? I wouldn't worry about that too much...engineers will never be abundant in the world...it is just way too hard for 99% of the population to get through those calculus and physics classes!!
Or you be refining bio-crude oil
Figuring out how to make this stuff we pump up from the bowels of the earth on the surface in large amounts would be nice bro. Imagine the cost of fueling things becomes not even a concern.
The government won't though because the government are owned by the fossil fuel industry
The world runs on diesel, not gas. Trains, farm equipment, trucks, construction equipment, ships. This could be huge in keeping the world economy going when oil production slows.
We need synthetics made from abundant sources that are chemically identical so you can mix it right into the real stuff and none of them machines know the difference. That way my car can just have 91 octane and the crude oil tanker ship I invest in can still make a ton of money whether it's pumping the real deal or the real deal just made in a factory.
We should have to worry about if the fuel pumps are going to run out or be too expensive while the government tries to groom you to buy an electric car so they dig up another few square miles of the earth looking for lithium. I'm going to look into lithium structure.
if this was made available at any gas station I would totally buy it over regular fuel
Same! And it would probably be cheaper then normal crude oil based gasoline!
Self empowering also 😊
It's at ExxonMobil.
at $2-$3 a gallon it's already cheaper than gas at Washington State in the U.S. Why isn't it at my gas station?
Bro we're not going to have a choice. They already spike straight ethanol made from corn into most of the gas for sale. The issue is that seems like a weird way to do it when you could take the corn and mix it with other stuff and try to make A chemically identical man made oil, fuel ect. If you could make a molecule that was molecularly identical to the hydrocarbons used to make our fuels in refining, you could just mix it right in with the real stuff pumped out of the bowels of the earth and none of the oil tankers or motor cars would be able to tell the difference. Problem is, it takes a crap load of energy to do that.
We've known about this for a while but it's always great creating more videos to educate more people!
Phenomenal opportunity! Great VID. Thanks so much!
Past: Abuse the planet
Future: Clean the planet with our tech,
Not all hero's wear capes ..
Only science could save us.
Ironically, science is also why we're in such a predicament.
The stone age and the hunter/gathers were sustainable.
Fossil fuels, Haber-Bosch, and the overproduction inherent in capitalism is not.
it is what we need to do to sustain more population bro.
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@@thunderpooch so youre saying capitalism is the problem? lol. wow, your a special kind of person....
@@Bo12346hhgfgdg Capitalism would be fine by me if externalaties didn't exist, but they do. I'd even be forgiving of capitalism if the externalities would reliably show up on the corporate balance sheet as an expense, clearly they don't.
Pollution/habitat destruction-- the resulting poor health outcomes, dislocations of those with family farms/small fishing operations, or those who simply live off the land, are all scenarios and costs beared by the general public. Rarely are corporations required to compensate individuals and communities even approximating a level of fairness.
We all hear about the rare $100 million settlements, but that's after many have already died or been financially ruined.
Corporate boards need more transparency and worker representation. A corporation shouldn't be structured in a way which is secretive and at odds with their workers, the communities they operate in, or to the environment.
All this plastic crap and overproduction of non organic chemicals and the burning of both waste and fossil fuels is affecting all of us. I don't take endocrine disruptors, cancer, respitory illnesses, or global habitat destruction lightly.
What quality of life has really been achieved by a comfortable life with a bunch of gadgets and toys, if you're body and brain have been diminished?
Amazing effort! I hope this project is successful and can be used all over the world! ❤
Genetically engineer a new type of algae that is more suitable to the farming process and make a type for each climate. CRISPR should be capable of such a feat.
the issue is finding the necessary genes i think
you could use CRISPR for that
You can't just genetically engineer stuff willy nilly. You have to be careful of what you are releasing into the wild. Normally when something microscopic is genetically engineered it's kept in tanks or some other container.
Lemonz1989 what if it uses that tank to wage war with other organisms
Lemonz1989 Agreed. And for the record, I'm an engineer, not a geneticist. I don't really know what it takes to alter an organisms, just what I've seen on UA-cam. That said, the modified algae would be in containers. That and you could seal the tops with transparent plastic to seal the moisture inside. Assuming the algae thrive in warm humid environments, you could use cheap desert land to set up large scale facilities.
I love this! Positive innovation! And as a spirulina user I was already fine with algae anyway. :D Negative people should remember that if you would have talked to someone 30 years ago, and told them we'd all be walking around with our own little portable computers, that allow us to use a global network, look up all the information in it and watch videos online, there would have been many people who would have thought it was a crazy idea. Progress often goes faster than people expect, once the momentum is there, the train is on the track and it will steadily keep moving. So stay positive and all try to do your part to help the environment.
Get Elon Musk to fund this
Tobias Ruddi if "gas cars" were suddenly less polluting might one of his companies suddenly not do so well?
FlushF00T why not invest in this? It will be about as good as electric cars
FlushF00T I think he's above that, he actually cares about saving the planet rather than making a profit
Elon need more fuel to make his plan come true ;)
Well,still electric cars is more silent and easy to controll so this could be an alternate car:either you want silent slightly better more exspensive car or the cheap one FlushF00T
I've been talking about this stuff for years. It can also be used for pre-existing vehicle and purify human waste!
I'm including this company in a presentation project to present to my state's legislator in order to help expand its reach, or at the very least increase awareness of it in order to help advance its global affect with other green-solution companies trying to combat the world's mounting problems. If you want to help accelerate such causes, then I recommend that you do the same thing. Call up your representatives and bring this to their attention. It's a very simple baby step that you can take to have a real change in the world.
Great idea. check out www.globalgae.com for the latest information
I cannot describe how much i love this idea. For me this man is a true legend he innovates well and theres more than profit behind this idea.
"It's too important for it not to happen" Too right. Somebody call up Elon Musk and tell him to start some martian Algae.
We really need this now
Kudos to the company and the team.
wow. I just became a fan of this organization
I would absolutely support this over Tesla, as I could still drive my Studebaker with little fuss!
Tesla uses electrisety which is made by coal so its same as fuel
This is awesome! Way to go Global Algae Innovations for leading the way!!!
automotives dont have to be dependent on fossil fuels! This video shows how we can make biodiesel, this could power all of our semi-trucks and industrial transportation, and with the common day citizen who doesnt drive a diesel truck, we have ethanol! Not only can we create cars that wont be dependent on a depleting resource, but fuels like e85 are actually higher octane then generic gasoline meaning that users can see performance benefits too!
Doesn't E85 have some blends with petroleum gasoline?
Algae can actually also be used to make butanol, a different alcohol which is a near-substitute for gasoline or (more likely) can be blended with gasoline/petrol like ethanol (EtOH) is, only it's a FAR better choice than EtOH in many, many ways. It doesn't harm the plastics & rubber parts of a car engine, it doesn't increase pollution/emissions, it only slightly decreases mileage (but actually has similar power). And it can be blended in much higher percentages (or, again, be used almost nearly straight in an unmodified auto engine).
Hats off to the creator and people of this company, we definitely need this asap
Sad that the cost is a limiting factor /:
:/
4 to 15 times more expensive to produce than diesel & one ten THOUSANTH of the fuel volume used everyday in the usa
One of the many reasons I love this channel
Excellent! I actually plan on researching deeper into this in university. From a biology perspective (e.g. how to cultivate it so it demands less water)
Well , one of the products of Algae Biofuel that i liked is called "Biogasoline" . Which can be used in ICE cars without Flex Engine / Special Engine ......
Tho only problem with Biofuels and current engines is that they're solvents, which means they can shrink/destroy rubber hoses, if you're going to use pure Biogasoline, you'd need to replace rubber hoses with something that doesn't get destroyed by it.
Please someone fund this!
Exxon Mobil is actually funding this.
@@robm2681 FANTASTIC!
I hope that you guys can accomplish this mission!!! A world where everyone can see our beautiful blue sky and not worry about getting cancer, would be amazing!♡♡♡ :)
Good work. Whatever gets us away from oil is a positive step
You will never see us get away from oil bro. Oils run the world. We're going to develop oil identical to what we pump out of the ground. I cook my food on a type of oil made from a seed. They even used it as a lube for mechanical things at one point.
We're going to take micro nuclear powerplants to power some electrolysis so we can seperate ocean water into hydrogen and oxygen. Spaceships need oxygen because their is no air in space ECT. You can't just suck all the oxygen we breathe out of the air, so there is a demand for oxygen. Anyway, then we're going to mix the hydrogen and some carbon together to make synthetic gas that is chemically identical to the real premo organic matter we pump from deep underground. So we can produce more than we pump up and chop cost of fuel by order of magnitude and then we don't have to spike ethanol right into the gas which vehicles don't like. There's better things we can do with the corn or the ethanol tbh. I don't like hydrogen bombs driving around man! We could use the hydrogen and make real liquid gasoline if we get enough geniuses together
I so want to work with these people in the future! What you're doing is going to change the world! I love you guys! :D
you deserve to win a nobel peace prize
Guys like this are doing Gods work
4 years later we didn't see anything yet
BIG OIL companies would hate this guy!!
This is a genius idea
what if we could pump sea water into the desert, we could build algae rivers and lakes. and there would be lots of evaporated fresh water in the atmosphere. you could go huge to start with.
My chemistry teacher linked me this
i really hope one day we all stop to fight and start to share
I'm using this for my social studies! Thx
Who is the guy talking in the video?
Great content! you inspired me,
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humm.. so if algae farming is so compact, could we compact it even more by farming it vertically in tall buildings?
KvaGram they need a good amount of sunlight and carbon so putting it in a building isn't that good.
While it is true they need good access to sunlight and carbon, can that not be accessed in a building designed for vertical farming?
The farm featured was built next to a power plant. Now how do you think they get the carbon from the plant, and into the plants (just to use a pun)?
Putting the carbon in the air first would be inefficient, so it is likely pumped though pipes to the farm.
If they are already doing that, they they could do the same for a vertical farm.
Now that leaves only sunlight. Could not the algae get the sunlight in a vertical farm though careful building design that maximizes sunlight per floor and/or artificial lighting?
I feel like its a great idea you have going but from a business perspective, I don't think people are willing to put the time and money to design such a thing and have to keep it constantly regulated. Why do that when you can build a cheaper lane of open algae (remember they have to meet certain conditions to do what the makers want) and help the carbon pollution that's already out in the air.
True. It would require someone willing to spend the required money, knowing they would not get any good returns for it in a long time - if ever.
It would take a billionaire who cares for the environment. Luckily, there are a few billionaires who at the least claim to care about the environment.
Meh, if they're billionaires they probably wouldn't care about anything more than making some money. There are some exceptions but yeah..
So can we get an update?? This video is 6 years old. Have they scaled? Did they go out of business?
the world is SAVED
This is one of the first teams in the world to go all the way from designing sustainable biofuel feedstocks in outdoor ponds, to refining fuel so that it runs a diesel engine in a cleaner, more environmentally friendly way.
This is the future. Not electric cars.
I love this man
Another idea that could work @ least these people are doing something to help the problem instead of just throwing money @ the problem.
Hopefully this can replace the dirty oil we are currently stuck with
i badly wanna work with this company T_T i've been researching algae for about 3 years and this is exactly what i'm looking for
any particular species of algae for making biofuel?
Most likely they will bio engineer it in a lab to make it the most efficient crude oil producing algae
Why isn’t this a more prominent news item on nightly discussions of global warming, hunger, need for fuel, economics etc? This should be tag teaming with solar and wind and hydro electric to clean this planet up!
Another amazing story that need to be shared. I think it would help a lot if it had subtitles, for the non English speakers. ´Would gladly help to make the Spanish subtitle, and also german! Cheers and keep the good work.
Awesome! Why not use this for aviation? Would be perfect
Nice that this is on a channel called "stories", since that's what algae fuels will remain. It hes been researched and investigated for decades, yet they still haven't reached a positive energy balance.
i'm glad he talked a little about the harmful animal agriculture
I love it! I drink live blue green algae every day. its called E 3 Live
Wow man I want to start a algae farm...
VERY SMART!
Amazing story, this made my day!
I've read about a saltwater microalgae called Picochlorum renovo, which has a theoretic mass-doubling time of ~2h 20mins
I can already hear the oil tycoons plotting to destroy this
Hi it's Austin from school 👋
Don't make it another alternative. Make it a STANDARD.
This algae farming caught the eye of a chemist in the Philippines. So he established an events place (for leadership training and stuff) in the Pangasinan province. He's starting out small but I think it's great that he knows this idea.
Aleksey Benitez Any sources? I'm an aspiring chemist and I'm actually from Pangasinan :D
It would be great if I could keep an eye on them and probably help them in the near future :D
Hopefully, I get a Chemistry degree in 5 years XD
Wala po akong credible sources Haha but based sa the fact na may ganitong video, naniniwala na ako na posible siya. Maybe exaggerated lang siyang pnresent sa pinuntahan namin.
Btw, Geo Farm name niya sa Brgy. Mangayao, Bayambang, Pangasinan
Good luck on your journey!
Regular diesel sells at €1,80 a liter here in Europe! Keep cutting the production cost and you will eventually make a profit from it.
this is cool. thanks
I wish that big oil companies dont be bias to this man brialliant idea
thats a very nice ad
awesome video
I am about to embark upon an experiment in the destructive distillation of wood.
I shall try to grow enough algae to do a batch, and see what I can get.
this is great.
My dad was doing this stuff a few years ago with Ocean Nutrition
Anyone know some companies that invest/research/develop algae that are on the stockmarket? Thanks in advance.
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So much for Midwest American farmers
This has real potential, near my home we have one huge coal power plant, people are complaining because they plan on building new block which will release even more CO2 in atmosphere. If only we could build similar algae feul factory it would solve the power plant problem which would be great!
It can't possibly be releasing more CO2 than eight billion Humans, and countless animals.
Its not even CO2 coming out of that plant, it's Carbon Monoxide, which can be trapped and scrubbed. You're paranoid and uninformed.
I never said it releases more CO2 ''than eight billion Humans, and countless animals'', and it is Carbon Dioxide that is getting trapped and reused instead of being released in the atmosphere. I am not paranoid i just want the world to be better and healthier for our future generations.
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Can you be anymore ignorant? Coal does not produce Carbon DIOXIDE, it produces Carbon MONOXIDE.
The former FEEDS plants, and should be allowed into the air. The latter KILLS plants, and is trapped by scrubbers inside smokestacks.
You are being played for a FOOL by corporations seeking to eliminate their competition.
i learnt it my class! we took marine microbiology. algae is great way for replacing fossil fuel
very interesting
Australia is a place you should look at expanding
Food to feed growing population, less land to harvest.
Are they using hexane to extract the lipids?
algae fueled cars, imagine
To make this viable you need 850,000 acres of land (minimum).
I can’t imagine the cost of building that facility as it’s several €Trillion !
you can tell the curly haired guy use to grow something else cause he said 'its just a plant' at the end
This may sound dumb but how many BTU's of energy does is take for every BTU produced?
I would absolutely buy this fuel, even if it would cost a little more than regular fuel. (Not at $30/gallon, of course, but the $2-$3, I'm good with. ;) ) Love, love, love this solution.
If you burn methane you get water, heat and CO2. If you mix algae, water, sunlight and CO2 you get food or fuel. If you bubble carbon dioxide through caustic soda you get more heat and sodium carbonate. So, two heat sources, water as a bi-product, a source of food and a source of fuel - all virtually unlimited and with a huge negative carbon footprint.
Does it produces more energy than it takes to produce biodiesel ?
To answer the title question, no. The quantity can never come close to petroleum and cows need the prairie. Cows don’t get feed in Hawaii. The rest of world needs to follow suit. A prairie under a cow is still a prairie but a prairie under a plow is a man made desert. There is no replacement for using drastically less energy which will happen the hard way or the harder way. It is clear that nature’s limits will be reached before humans collectively decide to live in the ecology instead of next to it
it looks like a good snack Dx
i think we need some freedom in this algae field
Never give up! And remember CRISPR !!
The one thing that bothers me about these "technologies that will end poverty" and all the other hypes they have around them is that they never seem to implement these types of farms in the areas they're supposed to help. If it's going to be so great for Africa, why the hell is it in Hawaii?!?
It's still really expensive to operate. So countries that are more poor can't afford the technology yet.
Evan B
You think this plant was set up with government money? Maybe a government grant or something but this is probably mostly private money. There are probably very few if any reason they couldn't build the plant where it's supposed to help people other than they didn't want too.
If some one doesn't see the operation making a lot of profit then no one will want to build it. That's just the kind of greedy world we live in. Governments have other problems to deal with in poorer countries unfortunately. I would just like to make it clear that I wish this technology be used everywhere in the world, I just just stating why it isn't.
Evan B
It's not making any profit right now. Did you not hear them say that they would probably be down to $2 a gallon if they could scale it and they're having problems doing so? They aren't selling this yet.
Yes I did hear that and it further solidifies my point. How can a poor country implement this technology if they can't afford it? You asked why this isn't done in poor countries and that's why lol
I am not sure if this is correct (I may just be being stupid) but wouldn't burning the fuel in cars and planes produce carbon dioxide just like any other fuel. I would very much appreciate a response. Thanks for the great video.
The algae absorbs all of the CO2 that it releases while being farmed. It only releases carbon emissions into the air that it already removed from the air. It is carbon neutral. Basically, it recycles the carbon in the air for energy.
Put the Saudi government out of business.
The Saudi and other middle eastern oil countries don't depend on oil as their income now, most of them have crossed over to renewable years ago and will be self sustaining by 2030.
@@damarh don't lie..saudi depends on oil more the u knows without its they nothing
@@damarh This is simply not true.
Looks like a a green smoothie instead of oil lol
Thanks!!
Euphorbeaceae family has a lot of Fuel ⛽ producing plants 🌱