Honestly after watching this video and many others it seems the best conclusion for getting the most viable oil out of algae would be if they teamed up with a thermal depolymerazation plant. its the way most oil in the earth is made anyway heat pressure and time just sped up really fast using one of those plants. but its hard for them to put 2+2 together.. we have the tech to do it

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I guess since it is still in it's infancy, they are using a lot of energy to make a small amount of oil. But the potential to do this on a much larger scale would probably be where the environmental pay off would come in.

No federal, state, or local tax money should fund patents. These people want to use my money instead of theirs in order to make a profit while giving me nothing in return, that is fucked up.

Ummm Basically most parts can be obtained from an aquarium supply store, but still, there is specific algae used (where to get) and you need to dry and compress (nothing special there) in a way that is protected from rain. By offering a "Kit" that already has all this, a school enterprise can obtain private funding by selling such things to people that just want to play.

the only problem with open ponds systems, is your subject to other contaminants such as other algea and dead anamials. If any you want a salt water open pond.

An interesting idea for you to use for fundraising would be hobby-home kits. It might be kinda fun to grow your own fuel in a small shed in the yard.

how do you store people? People used to store horizontally until apartments were built. The same method should apply to making algae. Build a skyscraper and fill it full of algae tanks. Build 10 skyscrapers filled with algae tanks and you could fuel the world 3 times. Efficient space use.

This is just like growing a tree, except the grow is controlled, and algae is very easy to process as a biomass. It seems like the algae can be separated from water by some means of evaporation.

What do you mean "patent pending"? There's nothing new here. I've known about this technology for about 20 years, and I DIDN'T INVENT IT! It ain't complicated. Just admit that you are "contributing" to the science.

@Ahlywog Tout Tesla all you want man! He was a true hero.

Billy Bob Thornton’s brother surprised me.

Super biofuel

put the genome of algae with big trees so we got more complex compound or hydrocarbons for fractional distillations

This algae discovery is amazing. Now tell me,How much algae is needed to produce the target fuel. Knowing all the things in the world that run on fuel,a large amount is needed in constant repetitive supply. Is it more efficient than biofuels like biogas and biodiesel. How does it perform in relation to other crude oil based fuels. I saw a video like this where they grew the algae in enclosed environments,they supplied CO2 and light through optic tubes,the algae would produce certain oils which they extracted and then separated to get the fuel desired. Here it seems that you are actually harvesting the algae not its secretions. This would mean that algae farming facilities would be needed,and MASSIVE ones at that depending on the algae volume relative to the fuel volume able to be extracted from it. We need ponds for fish,land for farming. I am hopeful but do not think that algae farms is the best option for producing globally satisfying portions of fuel. Compared to biogas and diesel which depend on things that are readily available on a massive scale(waste which humans are good at producing). Algae depends on you growing it,filtering it,living it. Can anyone share their views,I am no global expert,these are just my views.

Hemp oil comes from the seeds the amount of oil you get from hemp seeds is minimal and only used for medicinal purposes.. believe me i grow hemp..

@enticed2zeitgeist It depends on what they do with the patents. If they patent it then sit on the technology then I agree with you. If they patent it and make that patent publicly available then I'm all for it. Otherwise, without that patent, someone else could just patent it and sit on it like an oil company.

@55 rebels ok. I thought you meant "tops right now", not "tops ever" sorry misunderstood you. Vague language. Still we live in Arizona, this is like the cheapest place outside the middle east for gas. Hey its hot too! Speaking of Arizona issues. I bet we could grow a shitload of algae here. Sunniest place on earth is my hometown of Yuma AZ. One time the pool didn't get clean for a month, was in the shallow end when draining pool. Slipped. Ridiculous slip and slide action! That's some green oil!

@enticed2zeitgeist Agreed. I do know that Tesla patented a lot of his inventions and made those patents publicly available. Not meaning to tout Tesla but you get my point. Protecting the publicly availability of the information should be crucial IMHO.

20,000 gallons per acre per year is hardly a little bit

What the solution and salts are used for this process ??pls tell me sir

thanks it helped a lot

@Ahlywog They can also just declare it public knowledge can't they?

Agae doing its best is bio eco friendly filtering !!!!!!!!!!!!

Well they still have to use acidic substances such as Sodium Hydroxide to separate the Bio Diesel from the other liquids in the oil? Will the resulting product Gel in low temperatures like bio-Diesel made from Fats and fryer oils?

@Ahlywog I'm not 100% confident either. My understanding though is the information is released into the public domain before the knowledge is patented it is considered public property. Which means no one can really make copious amounts of money on it, which is good for the public which is what the world needs right now. Greed is destroying the planet and this kind of system could liberate man kind from energy enslavement.

Could you tell us a little more detail about the 1 Micron filter system that you are using. Any details about it would be appreciated.

@enticed2zeitgeist I honestly don't know how the whole patent process works. You might be right. Would you want to risk it though? I'm for any process that guarantees it's public availability.

How to test if the actual biofuel can generate energy or electricity?

20 000 gallons a day in an open pond system more in a closed loop system. #5 Vertigro - Gas, Diesel, Biofuel production from algae hmmmm not snake oil

genome of this algae mixing with methane producing bacteria with nitrogen fixation bacteria genome mixing with nitrogen fixation bacteria mixing with lactobacillus bacteria with button mushroom genome so we got more complex compound for fractional distillations

I subscribe to your channel. I have a question about algae. I have been silent for the first time growing spurlina algae. The question is, it lives in salt water and produces oil, and how much oil does it produce, and does it need fertilizers? I give it compressed air

how about biodiesel now ?

5:12: Algae soup - yummie! ;-)

could spirulina be farmed by saline water ؟

more info please. witch is the name of the industry?

Per square meter, it less area than solar needed to power a building?

can anybody explain how they are able to mix and loop water around the tall buckets

True is sounds good, but it seems to me it would be compatible only with engines designed to run on 100% ethanol. We need something renewable, affordable, and compatible with our oil engines.

Thanks for the video! What pH does Spirulina prefer? Also, what macro/micronutrients (I remember hearing N, P, and Si) does Spirulina eat, and how does the operator determine his feeding schedule? Thanks much!

did you look at the video I see no research from you.sounds like your quick to respond and talking through your hat . did the research. three years now. driving on the stuff

I lean more to electric vehicles but hemp and algae derived biodiesel can go a long way to solving issues of climate change and pollution. Besides it keeps money out of the hands of regimes that fund terrorism. Internal combustion vehicles will be on the road for easily another ten years. By that time conventional easy to get inexpensive oil would have peaked.

How much energy is used in this process cumulatively ? Seems like a lot. Thus the question does it take more energy than it produces ? If so - Fail.

Fantastic outdoor biotechnology ponds should keep a few jumbo-jets in gas for a year Think big the dead sea is drying out abracadabra one big site for a biofuel pond.Only joking,

did they give up yet?

The latest info I found it takes 3 days to make the oil

Seems like a whole lot of hassle, for just a little bit of oil. I believe hemp would be more practical. Not only do you get oil from the hemp plant, but also textiles, food and medicine.

Demo actual ph of Spirulina by Ph meter

Hi in wich contrie are you are?

Thermal deoxygenation (TDO) is a new technique for converting cellulose (carbohydrate) directly to oil (fuel); very promising. "Hemp is not marijuana" Well, purely semantics; the deference being the ratio of CBD to THC; both are of the Cannabis sativa (L) strain. Granted the term 'marijuana' is usually referring to the higher THC, and lower CBD type. The term 'marijuana' being more slang than anything else. Again, semantics ...Nice try tho

What is she using at 4:50 ?

Maybe people can do it themselves privately.

I believe yeahitspersonal thinks he/she knows a LOT more than he/her actually does. I have to agree with you on the "Even rigging oil is better (on tha large scale)". On the algae part, not so much. At $30 per gal., I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon, but as yeahitspersonal would say: "...Nice try tho"

yeah. looks like its happening. Jet fuel.

And u thought age was worthless .

Update: May 20, 2013 Exxon Takes Algae Fuel Back to the Drawing Board Read more: wwwDOTtechnologyreviewDOTcom/view/515041/exxon-takes-algae-fuel-back-to-the-drawing-board?nopaging=1#ixzz2UeygqiLH From MIT Technology Review Sorry algae fans, Mark

Bio mass can create "gas" this is true... but has very little lipid component that is needed for "oil" that you claimed in your previous statement.. And hemp is not marijuana .... Nice try tho

Realistically, it's more like 5,000 gallons, NOT 20,000 gallons. Think you've been listening to someone selling snake oil, not algae oil :/

Wrong what?

Yeah I did see the commercial, pipe dream (snake oil). Driving on the stuff, huh? See, I couldn't afford $25-$30 per gal. for fuel, don't have that kind of money to burn like you I guess ...You live in Europe? I live here on the north American continent, at Maricopa county, Arizona--USA;. $5 per gallon of gasoline, tops...so far. Maybe when gasoline here reaches that $25-$30 per gal., maybe it will be a viable alternative then. :/

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Yeah its all about that. It ain't that hard

Hmmmm, yea snake oil, do some research (I did), you'll find otherwise.

Holy-Terrorist:>*=* Hmmmm, beer!

Wrong

Bleh, patents...

any type of oil sucks it is yesterdays technology