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    Default Oil made from algae and water...

    Algae to Petroleum in Less than One Hour: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have discovered a way of turning algae into crude oil. They begin with "algae and water, and have remarkably turned the mixture into a kind of crude oil in less than an hour. The crude oil is suitable to be turned into burnable gases like jet fuel, gasoline or diesel."


    Scientists have replicated the process whereby fossil fuels were created. Instead of this taking several millennia the process has been completed in under sixty minutes.
    Scientists have managed to transform a small mixture of algae and water, and have remarkably turned the mixture into a kind of crude oil in less than an hour. The crude oil is suitable to be turned into burnable gases like jet fuel, gasoline or diesel. According to a research brief, with the process, a slurry of wet algae is pumped into the front end of a chemical reactor. Once the system is up and running, out comes crude oil in less than an hour, along with water and a byproduct stream of material containing phosphorus that can be recycled to grow more algae. The lead scientist, Professor Paul Falkowski, explained to CBS News the motivation behind the project: ""When we take petroleum out of the ground, we are buying a resource that was created millions of years ago and we don't pay for it. We're using nature's inventory of carbon." In addition to the manufacture of crude oil, Forbes notes that the process also generates, as a byproduct, chemical elements and minerals that can be used to produce electricity, natural gas and fertilizer. This latest research forms part of the wider study into biofuels. The search for new and novel ways to create biofuels is an area that is receiving considerable scientific attention and research funding. For this, algae are a potentially useful natural resource because they proliferate quickly and are found in abundance. Although a bioplastic has been produced, scientists do not yet think that they have found the right type of algae for large scale production. It could be that a genetically altered algae is required. The study was undertaken by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. The research has been purchased by the Utah-based start-up Genifuel Corporation. The company hopes to build upon the research and eventually implement it in a larger commercialized framework. In the longrun, the company hopes to be in a position, The Smithsonian reports, to sell biofuel commercially for as low as $2 a gallon.

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    great...
    sooo 2 thing jump out at me here, one oil ain't necessarily millions of years old. ahem.
    2 if it's matter of finding the right algae seem like a project worth funding. we got to get off M.E. oil. Let's bring the troops home and spend the multimillions a day instead to find or create the algae. IF were serious that is.

    Some folks need to wok on more cost effective ocean water desalination too...
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    These things have been around for a while. Don't think for a second that the massive petrochemical conglomerates are going to let this go much further than a test lab. It's a shame really. We could do with less expensive and more environmentally friendly alternatives.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jafar00 View Post
    These things have been around for a while. Don't think for a second that the massive petrochemical conglomerates are going to let this go much further than a test lab. It's a shame really. We could do with less expensive and more environmentally friendly alternatives.
    You mean people with billions of dollars at stake and a near monopoly on energy markets might not let the free market work to bring us oil at prices that cut their 35yr profits projections and maybe lose billions of dollars of current infrastructure?

    that's just crazy talk Jafar.

    We all know someone at the office might take credit for you work or ruin your project just to get a $2000 raise and promotion but big oil has ethics, plays fair square EVEN with all they have to lose.


    text book capitalism, free markets will fix it all, that's the ticket Jafar. that's the way big oil plays. they'll be HAPPY to fairly compete with low cost alternative, or they'll die... and say the best man won. Don't believe the conspiracy theories that tell you Big corporations only care about money and control, that's just ridiculous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by revelarts View Post
    You mean people with billions of dollars at stake and a near monopoly on energy markets might not let the free market work to bring us oil at prices that cut their 35yr profits projections and maybe lose billions of dollars of current infrastructure?

    that's just crazy talk Jafar.

    We all know someone at the office might take credit for you work or ruin your project just to get a $2000 raise and promotion but big oil has ethics, plays fair square EVEN with all they have to lose.


    text book capitalism, free markets will fix it all, that's the ticket Jafar. that's the way big oil plays. they'll be HAPPY to fairly compete with low cost alternative, or they'll die... and say the best man won. Don't believe the conspiracy theories that tell you Big corporations only care about money and control, that's just ridiculous.

    Yep. And my company gives out free lunches all year, not just at the staff Christmas party
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    Or... and stay with me here... the project isn't commercially viable and has nothing to do with Big Oil. Nah, couldn't be.
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