Researchers at Arizona State University have established an extensive research program to determine just how effective algae can be in meeting our future needs for food and fuel. Please visit our website at americasheartland.org/
Stephen T - I really believe that this is the solution we've been looking for. The solution for ridding the world of the oil corporations, that is. The food aspect has enormous potential.
The work put into this video about showing this industry is amazing, and you can tell the host is a little bit of a goober :P but he's rather personable with his interviewees and he's got some charisma as well
The two usual production problems, yield, and favorable energy efficiency.. The most produced, with the least energy cost. The Los Alamos youtube clip mentions using wastewater as a win-win.. But for existing wastewater facilites, as they presently operate, 2 types of wastewater facilities, aerobic and anaerobic. The anaerobic is presently ideal, since it used anaerobic digesters that produce huge volumes of waste gases. Those waste gases are, in about a 2 to 1 ratio, CO2 and methane. Both need to be disposed of along with all the wastewater effluent water. Existing anaerobic wastewater treatement plants could dovetail nicely with algal biomass production. Most facilities produce way more methane than they can use so they use large waste gas burners. That waste methane could power the algae processes. Of course the waste gases have to be "scrubbed" etc before use, not a problem. Then there's all the water effluent and bio-nutrients. And then there's all that available waste CO2. Unfortunately, there's laws that obstruct and impede R&D from use of waste gases, the Fed CO2 anti-recycling legislation. -Sounds like big oil probably owns that one (innocently packaged as pro-environment protection, actually veiled protection of big oil.). Another major reason why we need to extricate ourselves from big oil and the dubious petrodollar scheme... A bonus of teaming algae biomass operations with wastewater facilities is the existing bio-process experienced personnel, operators, maintenance and lab (many such plants have good water quality labs).. Colleges, universities could work out academic internships for grad students for different departments for algae related programs.
Florida has a large algae problem going into it's lakes ponds creeks and near the Beach ocean This happened because they put fertilizer in the sugarcane fields The results are algae became everywhere in sources of water This algae conflict can be resolved now
